Tulista pumila
The largest of the haworthia-like rosettes, with stiff dark leaves covered in white tubercles, long grown as Haworthia pumila or H. maxima. It comes from the Worcester-Robertson Karoo, grows in the cooler months and likes bright light with some shade from the hottest sun.
Where it grows wild
Grows on flats and gentle slopes in karroid scrub and renosterveld, usually in the partial shade of small shrubs or among stones.
Lowland to low hills; the measured sites sit at about 150-640 m.
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