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Thesium goetzeanum is a rhizomatous African herb of the Thesiaceae, a root parasite of grasses and other plants, found in grassland and rocky savanna at 1,000 to 3,000 m. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care depends on its native habitat.
Thesium goetzeanum is a species of plant from Africa, where it grows between South Africa and Kenya.
This species is found growing between South Africa and Kenya. It is found in Botswana, Burundi, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. While it prefers the grassland biome, it has also been recorded from rocky savanna areas. It grows at elevations of 1,000–3,000 m (3,300–9,800 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thesium goetzeanum 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.
