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Drosanthemum speciosum
Also called Dewflower, Showy Dewflower, Orange Dewfig, Red Dewfig
A low, mat-forming succulent subshrub from the Cape region of South Africa, grown for its showy orange-red flowers. Give it full sun, very sharp drainage and sparing water, and it will thrive in a rock garden or dry bed.
Drosanthemum speciosum or royal dewflower is a succulent plant in the Ice plant Family (Aizoaceae) and native to the Montague District in the south of the Cape Province of South Africa. The flowers have two whorls of staminodes: The inner whorl of about thirty are very short and almost black. The outer whorl of about sixty are long and bright orange.
Showy dewflower · Hairy dewflower · Scarlet Dewfig · Fire Dewfig · Quarter Dewfig · Knersvlakte Dewfig · Dewflower
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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.
