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Bushmanland Sandfig

Cleretum bruynsii

Bushmanland sandfig is a small annual succulent in the ice-plant family, native to the arid Northern Cape of South Africa. It is rarely grown outside botanical collections, so care advice is limited and mostly a matter of mimicking its dry, sandy desert home.

Family
Aizoaceae (Ice-plant family)
Grows as
Succulent, Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Very free-draining sandy mix.
Temperature
Suited to warm, dry conditions; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Northern Cape
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Cleretum bruynsii, commonly known as the Bushmanland sandfig, is a small annual plant in the family Aizoaceae and is part of the Succulent Karoo. The species is endemic to the Northern Cape and also occurs in the western Bushmanland near Springbok. The plant has a range of only 585 km².

Other Cleretum plants

Mini Sandfig · Livingstone Daisy · Roggeveld 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 bruynsii 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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