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Orthosiphon fruticosus
Bushveld piccadill is a small, twiggy South African shrub in the mint family, native to dry bushveld on stony slopes. It is best treated as a drought-tolerant, sun-loving garden or xeriscape plant.
Orthosiphon fruticosus, commonly called the bushveld piccadill, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is endemic to South Africa.
Orthosiphon fruticosus grows on stony slopes in dry bushveld from Loskop Dam in the South African province of Mpumalanga to the Steelpoort Valley in Limpopo.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Orthosiphon fruticosus 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.
