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Passerina paludosa
Marsh Gonna (Passerina paludosa) is a South African shrub from the Thymelaeaceae family, native to the Western Cape wetlands and strandveld. It needs moist to wet soil and is rarely grown outside its native habitat.
Passerina paludosa is a shrub belonging to the genus Passerina. The species is endemic to South Africa and occurs in the Western Cape on the Cape Flats and the Agulhas Plain. The plant has a range of 3200 km2 and there are five subpopulations. It is part of the strandveld and fynbos biomes. The plant has already lost 70% of its habitat on the Cape Flats due to development and the associated drainage of swampy areas. Two subpopulations have recently been discovered on the Agulhas Plain but are threatened by invasive plants and development.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Passerina paludosa 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.
