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Aspalathus zeyheri is a small shrub in the pea family, endemic to the Western Cape of South Africa, where it is rare and threatened in the wild. It is seldom grown outside its native range, and the key to growing it is mimicking its dry, fynbos-type conditions.
Aspalathus zeyheri is a shrub belonging to the family Fabaceae. The species is endemic to the Western Cape and occurs from Swellendam and Potberg to Riversdale. The plant has a range of 5 200 km² and there are eleven fragmented subpopulations. It has already lost habitat to crop cultivation and is also threatened by invasive plants, uncontrolled wildfires and overgrazing.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aspalathus zeyheri 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.
