RAPHIONACME burkei
RAPHIONACME burkei
RAPHIONACME burkei
RAPHIONACME burkei
RAPHIONACME burkei
RAPHIONACME burkei

RAPHIONACME burkei

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€28.50
Author : N.E.Br.
Family : Asclepiadaceae
Habitat : South Africa
description: Raphionacme burkei is a small growing caudiciform, perennial herb producing trailing, vining shoots.
Caudex (Tuber): Big mostly spherical ± flattened, almost always unbranched, smooth, above-ground. It might grow to 30 centimetres or more.
Stems: The stems (vines) are numerous, deciduous, semi-erect, shrubby or partially climbing up to 45 centimetres (usually less), scarcely pubescent.
Leaves: In well-spaced pairs; petiole 2-3 mm long, blades linear-lanceolate to obovate, widest about middle, tapering equally to both ends, pointed, up to 5 cm long X 1-1,5 cm wide, usually smaller. Acute, basally tappering, margins ciliate, lower lamina face pubescent.
Flowers: Inflorescences lateral, almost from each node, sometimes also between upper leaf-axils, on short stout stalk, densely many-flowered, ± globular. The flowers are deciduous, pale green star-shaped with a purple centre, Ø 9 mm. Peduncle 1-2 mm long. Corolla lobes reflexed, narrowly triangular, about 5 mm long, densely hairy below, hairless above.
Blooming season: Summer.
Fruit: Solitary, thickly fusiform, glabrous.fruit-halves slender, up to 15 cm long x 5 mm diam, tapering to long point, often only one half developing. This species is closely related and form a complex to Raphionacme galpinii, Raphionacme velutina and Raphionacme zeyheri. The contrastingly bicoloured corona is significant for Raphionacme burkei.
Adult specimen with 6/8 cm caudex. Similar to the third pic
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CULTURE :
Exposure : bright and sunny
Temperature : a minimum of 5°c (summer growing)
Soil : not too rich and well drained
Wwinter resting

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