Haworthia mutica
Haworthia mutica is a stemless, usually solitary Haworthia from the Overberg of the Western Cape, with 12 to 15 blunt, truncated, brownish-green leaves forming a rosette 6 to 8 cm across. Its flat leaf-tip windows let it sit half-buried in heavy shale and clay soils under small shrubs and grass. Grow it bright but not scorched, with a cool-season growth rhythm and a very free-draining mix.
Where it grows wild
It grows in renosterveld on heavy clay and shale, among small boulders and in crevices on shale outcrops, often in the shade of grass and small shrubs with the leaves partly sunken in the soil. It also occurs on karroid riverbanks. Many sites are now farmland remnants.
Labels give no reliable elevations; the Overberg localities (Bredasdorp, Napier, Stormsvlei, Riviersonderend, Heidelberg) lie at roughly 50 to 400 m.
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