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Aspalathus cordicarpa
Heartfruit Capegorse is a rare South African shrub in the pea family, known only from the Garcia's Pass area of the Western Cape. It was thought extinct until it was rediscovered in 2016, so it is seldom grown and care advice is limited.
Aspalathus cordicarpa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. Prior to its rediscovery in 2016, Aspalathus cordicarpa was last collected in 1950 and thought to be extinct. It is endemic to the Fynbos region around Garcia's Pass in the Western Cape. It is also known as the Heartfruit Capegorse.
Aspalathus cordicarpa is found around Garcia's Pass, in sands or sandstone gravel at mid altitudes.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aspalathus cordicarpa 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.
