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Spatalla caudata
Also called Cederberg Spoon, Heath Leaf Spatalla, Tail Flower Spatalla, Woollyhair Spoon
Spatalla caudata is a fynbos shrub from the Western Cape of South Africa, growing about 1 m tall with woolly, spoon-shaped flowers in spring. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and a dry-summer, mild-winter climate, and it resprouts or regenerates from seed after fire.
Spatalla caudata, the woolly-hair spoon, is a flower-bearing shrub that belongs to the genus Spatalla and forms part of the fynbos. The plant is native to the Western Cape Province of South Africa, where it is found in the Cederberg, Groot Winterhoek Mountains and Hex River Mountains.
The shrub grows 1.0 m tall and flowers from August to October. Fire destroys the plant but the seeds survive. The plant is bisexual and pollination takes place through the action of insects . The fruit ripens, two months after flowering, and the seeds fall to the ground where they are spread by ants. The plant grows in sandstone sand along streams or streams at elevations of 910-1250 m.
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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.
