Haworthia bayeri
Haworthia bayeri is a retuse-leaved Haworthia from the Little Karoo of South Africa, with dark, round-tipped leaves whose flat translucent windows are marked by lines or a net pattern. It usually forms a solitary rosette pulled down into the soil, with only the leaf windows at the surface. It is endangered in the wild through collecting, but grows well in cultivation given bright but not scorching light and a very gritty mix.
Where it grows wild
Arid shrubland (Succulent Karoo and renosterveld mosaic) of the Little Karoo, where plants sit sunk into stony soils, often in the shelter of small shrubs or rocks, and are hard to spot. The western form sometimes called H. truteriorum grows on shale. Haworthia Updates notes its habitats do not differ significantly from those of H. emelyae.
The Little Karoo floor and foothills between Oudtshoorn and Uniondale lie at roughly 300 to 900 m; no elevations were given in the records.
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