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Spatalla confusa
Also called Alpine Spoon, Creeping Spoon, Longtube Spoon, Red Spoon
Long tube spoon is a small fynbos shrub from South Africa's Western Cape, grown for its spoon-shaped red flower heads. It needs excellent drainage, full sun and a dry, lean soil, and it resents overwatering and rich feeding.
Spatalla confusa the long-tube spoon is a flowering shrub native to the Western Cape Province of South Africa, where it forms part of the fynbos. It is found in the Cederberg up to the Hottentots Holland Mountains, Swartberg and Kammanassie Mountains
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Spatalla confusa 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.
