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Eriospermum paradoxum
Eriospermum paradoxum is a small South African geophyte (bulb-forming plant) from the Cape region, grown from a tuber in sandy, free-draining soil. The key to growing it is to mimic its dry winter-rainfall habitat: water in the growing season and keep it nearly dry during summer dormancy.
Eriospermum paradoxum ("haasklossie") is a species of geophytic plant of the genus Eriospermum, indigenous to the Cape region of South Africa. Its habitat is sandy or rocky clay soils in arid winter-rainfall areas. It is a bit peculiar in having a true leaf that is like the scale-leaves of some junipers, from which emerges an enation up to 15 cm (5.9 in) in height and half as wide. but is semisucculent in nature.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriospermum paradoxum 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.
