Anacampseros gracilis - Indigenous South African Succulent - 5 Seeds Eggplant

Anacampseros gracilis - Indigenous South African Succulent - 5 Seeds EggplantAnacampseros is a genus consisting of a number of species of small perennial succulent plants, native to South Africa. The botanical name Anacampseros is an ancient one for herbs supposed to restore lost love. The plants form clumping and bosal rosettes of smooth or hairy flesh succulent leaves in dense mats, developing a small caudex as they age, with white filamentous hairs along the stems. Leaves are lance shaped or almost round; the more exposure

Likes a good supply of water and makes a great hedging plant

This vigorous

prickly (or bristled) fruits are egg-shaped and can be up to 30 centimetres long with a moderately firm texture

very showy pale pink flowers in Spring

sport close-packed clusters of brightest fluorescent pink

racemes of yellow flowers marked with orange/brown Summer

These plants have a rather large tuberous root system

including the popular Jade Plant

and becomes flat topped in maturity

Season to be sown

Growing to 4m with unbranched stems spreading to recurved dull green leaves with panicles of reddish-orange to blood-red flowers with dark purple stamens

in a sheltered position if light frosts might occur