Haworthia reticulata
A small, clustering rosette haworthia with pale green, flat to convex leaves, often with a net of translucent lines, which gives it its name. It comes from the dry interior valleys of the southwestern Cape of South Africa, around Worcester and Robertson in the Breede River valley. It has four varieties (reticulata, attenuata, hurlingii and subregularis). It needs bright but not searing light, a gritty mix, and a mostly dry, warm summer with growth in the cooler months.
Where it grows wild
It grows in the arid Breede River valley between the Cape Fold mountains, in succulent karoo and renosterveld vegetation on flats and low hills. Like most small haworthias it typically shelters at the base of shrubs or among stones, partly shaded, in shallow, fast-draining soil. Wild records carry little microhabitat detail, so this description generalises from the region and the genus.
Records carry no elevations. The Worcester–Robertson valley floor and its low hills lie roughly between 150 and 500 m.
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