Conophytum flavum, the yellow cone plant,[2] is a small South African species of succulent flowering plant of the family Aizoaceae.
| Conophytum flavum | |
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| Conophytum flavum var. flavum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Aizoaceae |
| Genus: | Conophytum |
| Species: | C. flavum
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| Binomial name | |
| Conophytum flavum | |
Description
editThis species has rounded, flattened (truncated) bodies, covered with many idioblasts. Its flowers, which appear in autumn and winter, are unscented and yellow (flavum is Latin for "golden"[3][4]).[5]
Distribution and habitat
editIt is indigenous to the arid winter-rainfall Namaqualand region, in the far west of South Africa. Here it grows in rocky outcrops and crevices.
In cultivation in the UK this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[2] (confirmed 2017).[6]
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The subspecies novicium -
The subspecies flavum
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References
edit- ^ Young, A.J. (2022). "Conophytum flavum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T202850111A202872477. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T202850111A202872477.en. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ a b "RHS Plantfinder - Conophytum flavum". Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. p. 224. ISBN 9781845337315.
- ^ Sia Morhardt and Emil Morhardt California Desert Flowers: An Introduction to Families, Genera, and Species, p. 101, at Google Books
- ^ Conophytum flavum - Information page
- ^ "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 22. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
Further reading
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Conophytum flavum.
- Hammer,S.(2002) Dumpling and his wife: New views of the genus Conophytum EAE Creative Colour Ltd. ISBN 0-9539326-1-3.
- Hammer,S.(1993) The genus Conophytum : A Conograph Succulent Plant Publications, Pretoria. ISBN 0-620-17633-4.
- National Botanical Institute of South Africa.(1993) List of Southern African Succulent Plants Umdaus Press. ISBN 1-919 766-04-9
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