Monsonia crassicaulis (S.E.A.Rehm) F.Albers

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Origin and Habitat: Namibia and Republic of South Africa (Northern and western Cape).
Altitude: 300 - 1220 m.
Habitat: Grows in the a bushy and dry semi-desert area usually in rocky places in gravel and on outcrops of weathered quartzite.

Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Groot Kersbos, Bushman Candle, Yellow Bushman's Candle, Geelboesmanskers, Boesmanskers

Description: It is a perennial, deciduous, succulent shrublet, mainly low-growing, with short, branches, 20-50(-60) cm tall and 50 (or more) cm in diameter. It will drop it's leaves readily during drought periods and leaf and flower when water is available. The plant resembles a small tree and is very suitable for bonsai but always an attractive plant.
Root: Not swollen.
Stem: Main trunk 3-5(-8) cm in diameter at the base branching repeatedly from 3-5 cm above the ground. Branches 1-1,5 cm in diameter, rigid, sparsely spined, which grow mostly horizontally, bark greyish-yellow, brownish or olive-green with a more or less translucent outer covering impregnated with wax which is inflammable and burns with a smoky flame even in green plants, hence the common name.
Spines: Thin, straight or recurved, greyish, rarely more than 30 mm long, base obovate
Leaves: Small, ephemerals, produced only after good rains that are shed in the summer months. This specie produces two type of leaves with long and short petioles, unsegmented, fleshy, leathery, tufted or solitary in the axils of the thorns, greyish-green, broadly elliptic, margin irregularly lobate, crenate or dentate.
Long petioled leaves: (10-)15(-19) mm long by (8-)10(-16) mm wide with petiole persistent, hardening into spines.
Short petioled leaves: With petiole about 1 mm long, blade (6-)15(-20) mm long by (4-)9(-14) mm wide.
Flower: Conspicuous in a saucer shape pale-yellow to white 3-5 cm across (or more), appearing singly. Sepals 5-13 mm long and 3-5 mm wide, hairless or finely hairy. Petals five broad, crinkly textured usually less than 2 cm long. Flower stalk up to 4 cm long
Blooming season: Autumn to spring (mainly in early to late spring).

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