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Astroloba spiralis
Also called Rough Flowered Apicra
Astroloba spiralis is a compact, slow-growing South African succulent with upright stems of blue-green, spirally arranged leaves, grown mainly as a container or rock garden plant. Give it bright light, sharp drainage and infrequent water.
Astroloba spiralis is a small succulent plant of the Astroloba genus, endemic to the southern Karoo regions of the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces, South Africa.
It is indigenous to the "Little Karoo", on the southern edge of the Karoo region of South Africa. It extends through the Little Karoo from the Graaff Reinet District in the Eastern Cape Great Karoo, as far as Oudtschoorn and Calitzdorp in the Western Cape, where it becomes Astroloba spirella.
Roggeveld Astroloba · Eastern Astroloba · Bumpy Astroloba · Cliff Astroloba · Camdaboo Astroloba · Swartberg Astroloba · Astroloba pentagona · Robust Starlobe · Robertson Astroloba · Astroloba spirella · Glossy Astroloba · Astrolobas
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Astroloba spiralis 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.
