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Bulbine louwii is a small, stemless South African geophyte that grows from a tuber and forms ground-hugging rosettes of fleshy leaves. It is rare in the wild and is grown mainly by specialist collectors, so give it sharply drained soil and a dry dormant period.
Bulbine louwii is a small, tuberous, perennial plant that grows with individual leaf rosettes and is assigned to the Asphodelaceae. Its initially green, later reddish brown succulent leaves have distinct parallel veins. It has flowers in a lax raceme with six pale yellow tepals and six filaments with many long perpendicular hairs. This species grows on the Knersvlakte, Northern Cape province of South Africa. This species is currently not declining but considered rare.
Bulbine louwii grows in white quartz pepple fields in the Knersvlakte just north of Vanrhynsdorp, Northern Cape province of South Africa. It can be found together with several species of Agyroderma, Conophytum calculus, Crassula globosa, and Othonna intermedia. It is a rare species that is only known from less than five locations, but is not under threat.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bulbine louwii 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.
