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Conophytum flavum, the yellow cone plant, is a small succulent from the Namaqualand region of South Africa, grown for its cone-shaped bodies and yellow autumn and winter flowers. Like other living stones, it needs very dry conditions and bright sun, with careful watering.
Conophytum flavum, the yellow cone plant, is a small South African species of succulent flowering plant of the family Aizoaceae.
It is indigenous to the arid winter-rainfall Namaqualand region, in the far west of South Africa. Here it grows in rocky outcrops and crevices.
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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.
