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Salad Twinleaf

Roepera morgsana

Salad Twinleaf
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Zygophyllaceae (Zygophyll family)
Grows as
Succulent
Native range
SW. Namibia to Cape Prov.
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Roepera morgsana, the salad twinleaf (or slaaibos in Afrikaans), is a succulent plant species in the family Zygophyllaceae. It is endemic to Namibia and the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Where it grows

Roepera morgsana is found mostly in the Nama Karoo and Succulent Karoo biomes, but also in the Eastern Cape.

Other Roepera plants

White Twinleaf · Twinleaves · Roepera billardierei

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Roepera morgsana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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