Haworthia springbokvlakensis
A slow, usually solitary retuse Haworthia with very swollen, rounded, translucent-windowed leaf tips, known only from a very small area around the Springbokvlakte in the arid Eastern Cape of South Africa. In the wild it sits pulled down into gravelly ground with little more than the flat leaf windows exposed, which is the key to growing it: strong light, a sharply draining mineral mix and sparing water.
Where it grows wild
Arid karroid scrub on flats and low slopes, where plants grow in stony, fast-draining ground and contract so that mostly the leaf windows sit at soil level, often in the partial shade of small shrubs or stones. The range is extremely restricted.
No elevations were available; the Springbokvlakte area of the Eastern Cape interior lies roughly in the 500 to 800 m band, which is an estimate, not a record.
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