Common name: Butter tree, Botterboom
Family: Crassulaceae
Synonym(s):
Country of Origin: South Africa
Description:
Uses:
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USDA Zone: 10-12
Source: Matt Opel
Provenance:
S. of Calvinia, S. Africa
Restrictions:
Culture:
Loses its leaves in summer and photosynthesizes via the stems. Keep drier in summer but not totally bone dry.
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: core eudicots
- Order: Saxifragales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Crassulaceae
- SubFamily: Sempervivoideae
- Tribe: Kalanchoeae
- SubTribe:
References:
Court, Doreen, Succulent flora of Southern Africa, A.A. Balkema, 1981
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