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Afrosciadium rhodesicum

Afrosciadium rhodesicum
Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, CC BY 4.0

Afrosciadium rhodesicum is a tuberous perennial in the carrot family, native to the montane grasslands of Mount Nyangani on the Zimbabwe and Mozambique border. It is a wild species rarely grown, so care is only loosely established and it should be kept cool and moist like other montane plants.

Family
Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich loam
Temperature
10–24 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
E. Zimbabwe to W. Mozambique
Climate
montane tropical

About

Afrosciadium rhodesicum is a member of the carrot family, Apiaceae. It is a perennial tuberous herb, endemic to the Mount Nyangani region along the border between eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique.

Afrosciadium rhodesicum was previously classified as Peucedanum rhodesicum before the genus Afrosciadium was established in 2008.

Other Afrosciadium plants

Afrosciadium abyssinicum · Afrosciadium articulatum · Afrosciadium dispersum · Afrosciadium englerianum · Afrosciadium eylesii · Afrosciadium friesiorum · Afrosciadium gossweileri · Afrosciadium harmsianum · Afrosciadium kerstenii · Afrosciadium lundense · Afrosciadium lynesii · Wild parsley

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Afrosciadium rhodesicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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