The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Tylecodon paniculatus
Also called Butter Tree, Southern Botterboom
Tylecodon paniculatus, also known as butter bush, butter tree, butterboom or rooisuikerblom (Afrikaans), is a species of succulent plant in the genus Tylecodon belonging to the family Crassulaceae.
The plant contains bufadienolide-type cardiac glycoside cotyledoside which causes cotyledonosis or nenta poisoning ("krimpsiekte") in sheep and goats.
The species grows in the arid, winter rain-fall regions from Namibia to the southwestern South Africa.
Tylecodon aridimontanus · Tylecodon aurusbergensis · Mini Buttertree · Tylecodon decipiens · Whitehair Butterbush · Oukoe Butterbush · Groovy Butterbush · Pegleg Butterbush · Butterbushes
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tylecodon paniculatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
