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Thesium lacinulatum is a small, spiny, hairy shrub from dry shrubland in South Africa and Namibia, reaching about 30 cm tall. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it is a semi-parasitic plant that depends on the roots of neighbouring plants.
Thesium lacinulatum is a species of plant from South Africa and Namibia.
This plant grows in dry shrubland areas of South Africa and Namibia. In South Africa it grows in the Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces.
The roots are crushed and boiled for use in traditional medicine in Namibia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thesium lacinulatum 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.
