€10,60

🔍 Green leaves with reticulated translucent windows.  Embossed and highly contrasted with the dark green of its leaves. It takes on reddish colors in full sun. Rosettes up to 10 cm in diameter.

📍 Succulent widely distributed throughout different provinces in the Republic of South Africa. It inhabits different climatic zones with very different temperature and precipitation ranges. It is a true transitional species between very different environments. It belongs to the Alooideae tribe within the Asphodelaceae family. The species Haworthiopsis tessellata is one of the four representatives of the Section Tessellatae, which is one of the seven sections described in the Gildenhuys & Klopper (2016) publication on its taxonomy.

🌡️USDA ZONE from 8a to 11a. Can tolerate frost. The minimum recommended temperature is -5ºC. 

☀️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 flowers several times per season starting at 3-4 years old when temperature conditions and water access are adequate.  

💧It is opportunistic. It can be watered all year round, always letting the substrate dry out between waterings. It does not rest in summer like its cousins, the Haworthias.

🚀Its development improves by providing nutrition with a high content of assimilable Calcium, such as with Desert CHOICE® Aloes, Haworthias & Co. 

📏 This is an inimitable Xerophytic plant cultivated in Madrid in a technological square pot and with the substrate activated with mycorrhizal fungi.  

Xerophytic in a 9 x 9 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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