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Apteranthes tuberculata is a leafless, succulent subshrub of the dogbane family (Apocynaceae) from dry deserts and rocky shrubland across Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and the Arabian region. It is grown mainly as a curiosity or edible succulent, and it needs full sun and very well-drained soil with little water.
Apteranthes tuberculata is a succulent subshrub flowering plant that belongs to the genus Apteranthes in the subfamily Asclepiadoideae of the family Apocynaceae. Its basionym is Caralluma tuberculata. This species is native to Afghanistan, India, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the West Himalaya and is found in desert and dry shrubland.
Common names in Pakistan include chungee, chunga and pawuni.
In 1851, the Scottish army doctor and botanist Andrew Fleming reported that this plant was "A favourite food of the natives, both raw & boiled" in the Salt Range.
Apteranthes burchardii · Apteranthes europaea · Australluma peschii · Boucerosia frerei · Ceropegia schinziata · Brachystelma tumakurense · Caralluma adscendens · Caralluma crenulata · Apteranthes munbyana · Caudanthera edulis · Ceropegia ampliata · Ceropegia anjanerica
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Apteranthes tuberculata 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.
