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Delosperma mahonii (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br.

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Aizoaceae > Ruschioideae > Delosperma

Characteristics

A herb that lies along the ground. It is succulent and keeps growing from year to year. It grows 25 cm high. It is woody at the base. The leaves are distant and spreading on the long shoots and crowded and erect on the short side shoots. The leaf blades are 2-5 cm long by 2-3 mm wide. They are thick and furrowed. The flowers occur as several together in forked groups. They are 25 mm across. They are pink to purple and have a sweet smell.
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Dwarf shrub, succulent, 0.15-0.20 m high. Stems erect, internodes light ochre with translucent, round bladder cells. Leaves 25-43 x 3-6 mm, surfaces with dense, globose bladder cells. Flowers: petals deep purple; staminodes and filaments white; Oct.-Feb.
Leaves very distant and spreading on the long shoots, crowded and erect on the lateral short shoots, scarcely united at the base; lamina 20–45 × 2–3 mm., thick, subcylindrical, somewhat acute, upper surface furrowed, fresh green.
Flowers several together in forked cymes, c. 25 mm. in diameter, pinkish-purple, sweet-smelling, with pedicels up to 12 mm. long.
Straggling succulent perennial herb up to 25 cm. high, woody at the base, covered with crystalline papillae.
Staminodes more or less linear.
Perianth-segments unequal.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 0.25
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in dry locations. It can grow in arid places. It grows in grassland and on sandy soils. It can tolerate drought.
Light -
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The roots are used for fermenting beer. They act like a yeast.
Uses food food additive
Edible roots
Therapeutic use -
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Cultivation

Plants can be grown by seeds or using woody stem cuttings.
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Germination duration (days) 10 - 40
Germination temperacture (C°) 23
Germination luminosity light
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Images

Delosperma mahonii unspecified picture

Distribution

Delosperma mahonii world distribution map, present in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

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WFO ID wfo-0000639549
COL ID 6CHFL
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Synonyms

Mesembryanthemum mahonii Delosperma mahonii
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