Chlorophytum crispum
A small, tuberous-rooted Chlorophytum with wavy-edged leaves from the southern Cape, recorded mainly from the Little Karoo foothills east to the Eastern Cape coast. It grows in open scrub and grassy fynbos-renosterveld mosaics with light rain spread through the year, so it wants strong light, sharp drainage and only modest watering.
Where it grows wild
Recorded from dry scrub, renosterveld and grassy slopes across the southern Cape; like most South African Chlorophytum it is a clump-forming herb with fleshy storage roots. Habitat detail here is inferred from the record spread and the genus, not from a species account.
Few records carry an elevation; the measured sites run from near sea level to about 1,200 m, with most around 200–500 m.
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