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Roggeveld Sandfig

Cleretum booysenii

Also called Roggeveld Snow

Cleretum booysenii is a small annual succulent ice-plant from the Roggeveld escarpment near Sutherland, South Africa, where it grows in fynbos. It is rare and has a very small range, so it is mainly of interest to specialist collectors rather than common gardens.

Family
Aizoaceae (Ice-plant family)
Grows as
Annual, Succulent
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; it is adapted to a dry, cool climate with seasonal rain.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty mineral mix.
Temperature
Tolerates cool conditions and light frost; protect from hard freezes and prolonged heat.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Cape Prov. (Sutherland Distr.)
Climate
subtropical

About

Cleretum booysenii is a small annual plant in the family Aizoaceae and is part of the fynbos. The species is endemic to the Northern Cape and occurs at Sutherland on the Roggeveld escarpment. The plant has a distribution area of less than 500 km² and is considered rare.

Other Cleretum plants

Mini Sandfig · Livingstone Daisy · Bushmanland Sandfig · Salt sandfig · Fire Sandfig · Springbok Sandfig · Desert Weed Sandfig · Karoosnow · Salad Sandfig · Kamiesberg Sandfig · Strangeleaf Sandfig · Red Sandfig

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cleretum booysenii 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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