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Conophytum hammeri is a small, slow-growing, solitary, onion-shaped succulent from the northern Northern Cape of South Africa, and it is endangered in the wild. Grow it in very gritty, fast-draining soil with strong sun and water only during its growing season.
Conophytum hammeri is a small, endangered, South African species of succulent plant, of the genus Conophytum.
This species is indigenous to the northernmost parts of the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. It was first discovered in the 1990s, on gentle quartz-covered slopes in the eastern Richtersveld.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conophytum hammeri 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.
