Botanical name

Huernia transvaalensis

Other names

Family

Apocynaceae; Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae

Dimensions

Low growing and spreading clumps of succulent stems, seldom taller than 10 cm

Description of stem

Pinkish-grey, fleshy and finger-like, with four or five toothed longitudinal ridges

Description of leaves

Description of flowers

Very attractive flowers of about 5 cm in diameter; a distinctive shiny, deep maroon ridge (annulus) encircles the inner flower parts with dark mottling towards the inner edge; five creamy yellow triangular petal lobes on the outside of the ridge are spreading or erect, covered on the upper surface in attractive, irregular maroon markings arranged roughly circular; long dark hairs around the inner edge of the flower at the base of the ridge

Description of seed/fruit

Description of roots

Variation

Propagation and cultivation

Tolerances

Uses

Ecological rarity

Pests and diseases

Other

There are about cialis prix 64 species of Huernia worldwide, mostly native to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula; 38 of the species occur in southern Africa; H. transvaalensis resembles H. zebrina on which the purple petal lobe markings are more zebra stripe-like in arrangement; H zebrina also occurs more to the north in Limpopo and the east in Mpumalanga and KZN

Location

In grassland and open woodland and bushveld

Distribution (SA provinces)

Gauteng; North West

Country

South Africa