Streptocarpus johannis
A rosette-forming Cape primrose from the forest margins and shaded rock faces of the Eastern Cape and southern KwaZulu-Natal, with many strap-shaped leaves and small blue-violet flowers. It grows in a summer-rain climate with cool, drier winters, so it wants bright shade, steady moisture in summer and a cooler, slightly drier rest.
Where it grows wild
Recorded mostly around the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal border, where rosulate Streptocarpus typically grow on shaded banks, rock outcrops and forest edges with leaf litter, often in seasonally misty gorges.
Most records sit around 1,200 to 1,600 m on the escarpment, with a few near the coast; few records carry their own elevation.
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