Tylecodon buchholzianus (Schuldt & Steph.) Toelken

 

Scientific Name

Tylecodon buchholzianus (Schuldt & Steph.) Toelken

Synonym(s)

Cotyledon buchholziana, Tylecodon buchholtzianus, Tylecodon bucholzianus

Scientific Classification

Family: Crassulaceae
Subfamily: Kalanchoideae
Genus: Tylecodon

Origin

This species is native to South Africa and Namibia.

Description

Tylecodon buchholzianus is a small winter-growing succulent shrub with a swollen, irregularly shaped stem and many erect to spreading or rarely drooping branches. It slowly grows up to 12 inches (30 cm) tall and up to 10 inches (25 cm) wide. Branches are whitish or grey-green and usually short. The older branches have peeling bark in brown flakes. It may or may not decide to produce leaves in the spring, leaving photosynthesis to microscopic leaflets on the stems. The short-lived leaves are green, almost cylindrical, up to 4 inches (10 cm) long, and up to 0.2 inches (0.5 cm) in diameter. Flowers are tubular, up to 0.6 inches (1.5 cm) long, pale pink to red-purple, and appear on short petioles from mid-winter to late spring.

Tylecodon buchholzianus - World of Succulents

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