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Aspalathus albens
Whitewashed Capegorse is a small to medium shrub from South Africa's fynbos, native to the Western and Northern Cape. It is a conservation concern and is rarely grown in gardens, but it needs well-drained, low-nutrient conditions and benefits from occasional fire-like disturbance to germinate.
Aspalathus albens, the whitewashed Capegorse, is a small to medium-sized shrub belonging to the family Fabaceae. The species is endemic to the Northern Cape and the Western Cape and forms part of the fynbos. It occurs from southern Namaqualand to the Cape Peninsula. It has a range of 26 921 km2 and there are twenty subpopulations remaining. The plant has lost habitat and is locally extinct on the Cape Flats. Urban development is a threat at Mamre and Atlantis while crop cultivation is a threat between Hopefield and Darling. Invasive plants are also a threat between Hopefield and Melkbosstrand. Wildfire prevention is also a threat to the plant, as it requires fire to reproduce.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aspalathus albens 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.
