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Bulbine wiesei is a small, stemless South African geophyte that grows from a tuber and forms a rosette of fleshy leaves. It needs full sun, very well-drained soil and dry conditions, as it naturally grows between quartz pebbles in arid Karoo habitat.
Bulbine wiesei is a small, tuberous, perennial plant that grows with single leaf rosettes and is assigned to the Asphodelaceae. It has pale green succulent leaves set in a rosette. It has flowers in a lax raceme with six pale yellow tepals and six filaments with many long perpendicular hairs. This species grows in a succulent Karoo vegetationbedtween white quartz pebbles, both in the far north of the Western Cape and the southwest of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. With only five known populations, the species is considered rare but does not appear to have any threats.
Bulbine wiesei grows as isolated plants 0n loam between light quartz accompanied by little subshrubs of the genus Ruschia, Monilaria, and Conophytum minimum. It is a rare species that is only known from five locations, but is currently not threatened.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bulbine wiesei 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.
