Oxalis truncatula
A small tuberous Oxalis of the southwestern Cape that grows through the cool, wet winter and goes dormant underground in the dry summer. It needs cool bright conditions while in leaf and a completely dry summer rest.
Where it grows wild
Hard, rocky soils in fynbos and renosterveld of the Overberg and Boland, sometimes on mountain slopes, among low open shrubs.
Few records carry an elevation; the weighted sites lie at about 100 to 1,100 m, mostly 400 to 450 m.
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