Faucaria tuberculosa (Rolfe) Schwantes

Species

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Characteristics

Plants clumped or single. Leaves spreading, 4-8 per rosette, crowded, thick, ovate-rhomboid, 15-20 x 15-20 mm, keeled, with 3-6 short, whitish stout teeth on each margin, almost without bristles, some teeth may be rudtmentarily developed; surface with many epidermal whitish dots, sometimes confluent on leaf margins and keel; upper surface with blunt, whitish tooth-like tubercles (this may vary from a single tubercle to, very rarely, a complete tuberculate surface). Flowers yellow, as F. felina. Stigmas 5, filiform, free to the base. Nectaries yellow-brown, large. Fruits and seed as in F. felina subsp felina.
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Perennial, dwarf shrublet, up to 0.05 m high, compact clumps Leaves ovate-rhomboid, keeled, 3-6 stout teeth on margins without bristles, epidermis with many white dots on upper surface, with many white raised warts. Flowers solitary, yellow, open in after noon. Flowering time autumn. Capsules 5-locular, locules hidden by lamellae thus appearing empty, valve wings present, typical closing bodies and covering membranes absent.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality -
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) - 0.1
Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.08
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 14 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 15
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -7
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Faucaria tuberculosa world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID -
WFO ID wfo-0000686002
COL ID 3DVZ3
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Mesembryanthemum tuberculosum Faucaria tuberculosa Faucaria felina subsp. tuberculosa