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Zygophyllum stapffii
A small desert shrub from the Namib coast of Namibia, with round, coin-like leaves that give it the name dollar bush. It relies largely on morning coastal fog and needs very little water, so grow it in a dry, sunny, free-draining spot.
Zygophyllum stapffii, synonym Tetraena stapffii, (Afrikaans: daalderplant, English: dollar bush) is a species of flowering bush endemic to Namibia. As of January 2025, the specific epithet was sometimes spelt with a single f, i.e. stapfii, but the International Plant Names Index spells it with double f.
It grows in the Namib ecoregion along the Atlantic Ocean coast. Most of this plant's moisture comes from the morning mist. The shrub's round, coin-like leaves lend it its colloquial name: daalder is an old Dutch coin worth one and a half guilders.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Zygophyllum stapffii 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.
