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Ceropegia schultzei

Ceropegia schultzei is a tuberous geophyte from dry savanna in southwestern Botswana and central Namibia, grown mainly by collectors of succulent and caudiciform Ceropegia. It needs a dry, well-drained root zone and a strict rest period.

Family
Apocynaceae (Dogbane family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun, Bright indirect
Water
Water sparingly during the growing season and keep it nearly dry while dormant.
Soil
Very free-draining, gritty cactus or succulent mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. Namiba to SW. Botswana
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Ceropegia schultzei is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is a tuberous geophyte native to southwestern Botswana and central Namibia. Its natural habitat is dry savanna. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The species was first described as Kinepetalum schultzei by Rudolf Schlechter in 1913. In 2017 Peter Vincent Bruyns placed the species in genus Ceropegia as C. schultzei.

Other Ceropegia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ceropegia schultzei 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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