Accession Data

Jensenobotrya lossowiana

Common Name: druiwetrosvygie

Family: Aizoaceae

Country of Origin: Dolphin Head, Namibia

Description: Jensenobotrya lossowiana is a shrub with thick woody, prostrate or hanging branches forming large dense mats 400-1000 mm in diameter. It has a fibrous root system and the branches are brittle and covered with dark brown to blackish, flaking, longitudinally fissured bark. Old branches are bare for up to two-thirds of their length and may be up to 70 mm in diameter. The younger branches have spongy internodes 5-10 mm long and up to 5 mm in diameter which are brownish at first and bear the remnants of old persistent leaves.

Taken from Jensenobotrya lossowiana by Ernst J. van Jaarsveld - Kirstenbosch NBG - follow link for more detail

Accession Data

Accession #: 200600047

Accession Date: 2006-05-18 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🌸 Flowering

Location: 2207

Quantity: 3

Source: Matt Opel

Provenance: locality: E. van Jaarsveld s.n., Dolphin Head, Namibia

Culture: Grows in coastal areas that receive frequent water from fog. Water lightly but frequently.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: core eudicots

Order: Caryophyllales

Family: Aizoaceae

SubFamily: Ruschioideae

Tribe: Ruschieae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References

  1. Jensenobotrya lossowiana by Ernst J. van Jaarsveld - Kirstenbosch NBG
  2. Copyrighted images of Dolphin Head by Brian J. McMorrow (remote links)
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, September 21, 2017.
  4. Jensenobotrya lossowiana at IUCN Redlist. Last accessed on Thursday, September 21, 2017.

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