은행목-Portulacaria afraJacq.

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과명 Portulacaceae (쇠비름과) 속명 Portulacaria (포르툴라카리아속) 전체학명 Portulacaria afra Jacq. 추천명 은행목 이명   외국명

 

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Portulacaria (포르툴라카리아속)으로 Portulacaria afra 'Variegata' 하나만유통명 은행목

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Portulacaria afra (known as elephant bush, dwarf jade plant, porkbush and spekboom in Afrikaans) is a small-leaved succulent plant found in South Africa.

 

It is a soft-wooded, semi-evergreen upright shrub or small tree, usually 2.5–4.5 metres (8–15 ft) tall. Similar in appearance to the unrelated "jade plant" Crassula ovata (family Crassulaceae), P. afra has smaller and rounder pads and more compact growth (shorter internodal spaces, down to 1.5 mm). It is much hardier, faster growing, more loosely branched, and has more limber tapering branches than Crassula once established.

Within the genus Portulacaria, it has been shown to be an outlier, relatively unrelated to the other species in the genus, which are all restricted to small ranges in the arid far west of southern Africa.