Cotyledon tomentosa Harv.

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Crassulaceae > Cotyledon

Characteristics

Shrublet, branched from base, spreading, later decumbent, ± 0.25 m high, rarely taller, densely covered with hair. Leaves oblanceolate, 15-25 x 8-14 mm, with 3-5, rarely more, apical teeth, apical margins brown, cuneate, obtuse, slightly dorsiventrally compressed, tomentose, grey-green. Inflorescence a thyrse with 1-3 dichasia, each with a few flowers; peduncle 0.15-0.25 m long, densely hairy. Calyx: lobes triangular, 3-5 mm long, bluntly acute, tomentose. Corolla orange-red almost yellow; tube ampullaceous to cylindrical, 12-16 mm long, hairy outside, glabrous inside, few hairs where filaments are fused to tube; lobes straight to slightly reflexed and shorter than tube. Flowering time July-Sept.
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Shrublets up to 0.5 m high, more or less densely branched. Leaves opposite, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, cuneate, obtuse and with several teeth, slightly dorsiventrally compressed to terete, tomentose to pilose, grey-green. Inflorescence a thyrse with 1-3 dichasia, each with few flowers; peduncle 0.15-0.25 m long, densely hairy. Calyx: lobes triangular, 3-5 mm long, bluntly acute, tomentose. Corolla orange-red to almost yellow; tube vaguely ampullaceous to cylindrical, 12-16 mm long, hairy outside, glabrous within except for tuft of hairs where filaments are fused to tube. Anthers 1.5-1.8(-2) mm long. Squamae transversely oblong, 0.5-1 x 1.3-1.6 mm, slightly emarginate, pale yellow.
Hairy, succulent shrublet to 1 m. Leaves cuneate to ovoid, toothed above, grey-velvety. Flowers several in a short, pedunculate cyme, erect, corolla sometimes bulging between calyx lobes, reddish, filaments hairy below.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter) 0.55 - 0.75
Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 0.75
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Environment

Light 6-8
Soil humidity 1-6
Soil texture 5-7
Soil acidity 2-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 12-12

Usage

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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Images

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Distribution

Cotyledon tomentosa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:272893-1
WFO ID wfo-0000624029
COL ID YZ8R
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Synonyms

Cotyledon tomentosa Cotyledon tomentosa subsp. tomentosa

Lower taxons

Cotyledon tomentosa subsp. ladismithiensis