| Author: | Karl
Moritz Schumann, 1900 |
| Family: |
ASCLEPIADACEAE* |
| Origin: |
Ethiopia,
Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania |
| Soil: |
Mix |
| Water:
|
Medium |
| Sun: |
Medium |
| Thickness: |
12
Centimetres |
| Height: |
1,5 Meters |
| Flower:
|
White |
| Propagate: |
Seeds/Cuttings |
| Names:
|
- |
| Synonyms: |
Pleurostelma africanum, Friedrich Richard Rudolf
Schlechter, 1895.
Tacazzea africana, N.E.Br. |
This member of the Asclepiadaceae*
family was given this name by
Karl Moritz Schumann in 1900. It is found in the
eastern Africa,
growing in a well drained soil with some water and some sun.
The caudex can grow to twelve centimetres, the branches will reach for
one and a half meter. The flowers are white, and the plant can be reproduced both by
seeds and cuttings.
The genera name
after Dr.Rudolf Schlechter, 1872-1925, a German botanist. The
species name means 'from Africa'.
*)Accordantly to the latest taxonomic system; APG IV 2016, Asclepiadaceae is now part of the Apocynaceae.
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