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Suaeda salina

Suaeda salina
Photo: Lidine Mia, CC BY-SA 3.0

Suaeda salina is a halophytic (salt-tolerant) shrub-like plant from the amaranth and beet family, native to Namibia and found in cold desert habitats. It is rarely cultivated, so care advice here is general guidance for salt-tolerant succulent-leaved plants of its kind.

Family
Amaranthaceae (Amaranth & beet family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out fully between waterings, as it is adapted to arid conditions.
Soil
Sandy or gritty mix, free-draining, tolerant of salinity.
Temperature
Tolerates cool desert conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Namibia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Suaeda salina is a species of plant in the family Amaranthaceae. It is endemic to Namibia. Its natural habitat is cold desert.

Other Suaeda plants

Seablite · Suaeda aralocaspica · Austral Seablite · Pursh seepweed · California seablite · Seablite · Herbaceous seepweed · South-Indian seepweed · Bush Seepweed · Suaeda pulvinata · Woolly seablite · Alkali seepweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Suaeda salina 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.

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