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Orthopterum coeganum
Also called Koega Mesemb
Coega Vygie is a small, rare South African succulent subshrub in the ice-plant family, endemic to a tiny area of the Eastern Cape. It is threatened in the wild and is seldom grown, so it is best kept as a sunny, dry-climate succulent for specialist collectors.
Orthopterum coeganum is a small succulent plant in the Aizoaceae family. The species is endemic to South Africa and occurs in the Eastern Cape. The plant has a range of less than 10 km² and is found in the Sundays River in the Albany Bush Ecoregion. Large parts of the plant's habitat have been destroyed by quarrying and industrialization. Only two of the three original subpopulations remain. The species is still threatened.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Orthopterum coeganum 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.
