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Australluma peschii

Australluma peschii is a small leafless-looking succulent subshrub from the dogbane family, native to dry savanna in Angola and Namibia. It grows best with bright light, sharp drainage and infrequent watering, as with other desert-adapted succulents.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Shrub, Succulent
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water thoroughly only when the soil is fully dry, and reduce sharply in winter.
Soil
Fast-draining cactus or succulent mix with added grit or pumice.
Temperature
18 to 30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Angola to NW. & NC. Namibia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Australluma peschii is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to Angola and Namibia. Its natural habitat is dry savanna. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Other Ceropegia plants

Apteranthes burchardii · Apteranthes europaea · Apteranthes tuberculata · Boucerosia frerei · Ceropegia schinziata · Brachystelma tumakurense · Caralluma adscendens · Caralluma crenulata · Apteranthes munbyana · Caudanthera edulis · Ceropegia ampliata · Ceropegia anjanerica

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Australluma peschii 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.

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