Index to Trees & Shrubs in the Order Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae (Stonecrop Family or the Orpine Family)
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137.1 Butter Tree Tylecodon paniculatus (Botterboom)
Order Saxifragales. Family Crassulaceae
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Richtersveld National Park
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Tankwa Karoo National Park, Gannaga Pass
Description
It is a dwarf, stocky, caudiciform succulent tree up to 2m tall and 40 cm in diameter. It is summer deciduous and a winter grower. The stem is densely branched above, with a rounded crown. The swollen trunk is greenish with yellowish green, papery bark. During the winter, plants are covered with long, obovate, succulent leaves clustered around the apex of the growing tip. The long reddish orange, tubular flowers are borne in upright racemes at the onset of summer in November each year, just as the leaves turn yellow and drop off.
Ernst van Jaarsveld described a new subspecies, Tylecodon paniculatus ssp glaucus, found in southern Namibia and the northern Richtersveld. It has slender grayish-green stems with conspicuous leaf scars and gray peeling bark and narrow glaucous linear-obovate leaves.
Distribution
It is found from Eastern Cape near Steytlerville in the Little Karoo, along the southern and western Cape coastline and as far north as the Auas Mountains in central Namibia. It is common in the Worcester/Robertson Karoo, the Bushmanland area and northern Namaqualand. Provincial distribution in South Africa: Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape.
Habitat
Succulent Karoo. Mostly on rocky hill slopes and outcrops.
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West Coast National Park
Order Saxifragales. Family Crassulaceae
© TokoRichtersveld National Park
© TokoTankwa Karoo National Park, Gannaga Pass
Description
It is a dwarf, stocky, caudiciform succulent tree up to 2m tall and 40 cm in diameter. It is summer deciduous and a winter grower. The stem is densely branched above, with a rounded crown. The swollen trunk is greenish with yellowish green, papery bark. During the winter, plants are covered with long, obovate, succulent leaves clustered around the apex of the growing tip. The long reddish orange, tubular flowers are borne in upright racemes at the onset of summer in November each year, just as the leaves turn yellow and drop off.
Ernst van Jaarsveld described a new subspecies, Tylecodon paniculatus ssp glaucus, found in southern Namibia and the northern Richtersveld. It has slender grayish-green stems with conspicuous leaf scars and gray peeling bark and narrow glaucous linear-obovate leaves.
Distribution
It is found from Eastern Cape near Steytlerville in the Little Karoo, along the southern and western Cape coastline and as far north as the Auas Mountains in central Namibia. It is common in the Worcester/Robertson Karoo, the Bushmanland area and northern Namaqualand. Provincial distribution in South Africa: Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape.
Habitat
Succulent Karoo. Mostly on rocky hill slopes and outcrops.
Links: PlantZAfrica
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