Fockea edulis
A caudiciform milkweed relative from the Eastern Cape thicket, with a huge turnip-like tuber and thin climbing stems up to 4 m. Easy in cultivation if kept bright and on the dry side; it never goes fully dormant and only tolerates light frost.
Where it grows wild
Warm, dry thicket, savanna and rocky slopes; the tuber sits partly buried while the stems scramble up through surrounding shrubs into the light.
Records run from about 84 to 330 m, mostly coastal lowlands.
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