€21,20

🔍 Scabrous leaves in sets of 3. Medium-sized and very dark green, almost black. Surface with tubercles forming characteristic raised patterns. It is sometimes stoloniferous and can form long, branched stems.

📍 Succulent with a wide distribution in large areas of the interior of the Western Cape province in the Republic of South Africa. It inhabits a region where the most frequent rains are in winter and in mountainous areas up to an altitude of 1,000 m. The species Haworthiopsis nigra is one of the four representatives of the Section Trifariae, which is one of the seven sections described in the publication by Gildenhuys & Klopper (2016) on its taxonomy. It belongs to the Alooideae tribe within the Asphodelaceae family.

🌡️ USDA ZONE 9a. Can tolerate light frosts. The recommended minimum temperature is -4ºC.

☀️ For healthy and stress-free growth, it needs partial shade or a PAR radiation intensity greater than 20 moles of photons per day.

🌸 Small, white, bilabiate flowers. It blooms several times per season starting at 3-4 years old when temperature and water access conditions are adequate.

💧 It should be watered between September and June, always allowing the substrate to dry between waterings. It rests in summer like its cousins, the Haworthias.

🚀 Its development improves with nutrition high in assimilable Calcium, such as with Desert CHOICE® Aloes, Haworthias & Co.

📏 This is an inimitable xerophyte grown in Madrid in a technological square pot and with substrate activated with mycorrhizal fungi.

Xerophytic gourmet in an 8x8 cm pot.

* As this is an online purchase, the appearance of the specimen sent may vary slightly from the product image. The plant's measurements are specified in the photo description, but this may also vary slightly, because it is a living being! Each of Desert CITY's plants has unique characteristics.

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