Fockea comaru
A caudiciform milkweed relative from the dry shrublands and semi-desert of South Africa's Cape provinces and southern Namibia, with a swollen, mostly buried tuber and thin twining stems. It sits through scorching summer days and cold winter nights, and in cultivation it is grown like other Fockea: bright light, a very free-draining mix and a drier rest when it slows down.
Where it grows wild
Dry shrubland and semi-desert, where the tuber lies in stony or sandy ground and the slender stems scramble up through nurse shrubs, so the foliage is partly shaded while the ground is sun-baked.
Few records carry an elevation; the Karoo and Namaqualand habitats of the genus are mostly a few hundred to about 1,500 m.
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