Adromischus triflorus (L.fil.) A.Berger
Crassulaceae
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About the genus · Adromischus
Adromischus is a genus of flowering plants. They are easily-propagated, leaf succulents from the family Crassulaceae, which are endemic to southern Africa. The name comes from the ancient Greek adros (=thick) and mischos (=stem).
Text from Wikipedia, “Adromischus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.
At a glance
Also known as Adromischus procurvus (N.E.Br.) C.A.Sm.; Adromischus robustus Lem.; Adromischus subcompressus Poelln.; Adromischus subpetiolatus Poelln.; Cotyledon bolusii var. karroensis Schönland and 2 more.
Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Adromischus, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.
Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (February, April to July and September to November in the northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (279 mm of 378 mm) takes 8 months, October to January, March to May and August. Mean temperature moves 10.9 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: February, April to July and September to November.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 378 mm a year, wettest April at 43 mm, driest September at 22 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
378 mm a year at the habitat, 279 mm of it October to January, March to May and August. Wettest month April at 43 mm, driest September at 22 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 268 mm to 540 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 50 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 18 to 50 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 16, the highest 90th-percentile month 53).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor 1.0 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 1.0 °C, the absolute minimum -1.8 °C, about 1 frost night a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 39.4 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 4.9 °C in July (across the envelope cells 2.7 °C to 6.1 °C), warmest day 29.0 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 1.0 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 54 to 57% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 29 / 26–30 | 29 / 26–30 | 27 / 25–28 | 24 / 22–25 | 21 / 18–22 | 17 / 15–19 | 17 / 14–18 | 18 / 16–20 | 21 / 18–22 | 23 / 21–24 | 25 / 23–27 | 28 / 25–29 |
| Night °C | 15 / 13–16 | 16 / 13–17 | 14 / 12–15 | 12 / 10–13 | 9 / 7–10 | 6 / 4–7 | 5 / 3–6 | 6 / 4–7 | 8 / 6–9 | 10 / 8–11 | 12 / 10–13 | 14 / 12–15 |
| Rain mm | 29 / 19–43 | 25 / 16–39 | 38 / 26–52 | 43 / 30–61 | 28 / 21–40 | 24 / 17–36 | 28 / 18–42 | 32 / 22–48 | 22 / 15–32 | 39 / 23–55 | 36 / 22–53 | 34 / 23–46 |
| DLI | 50 / 48–53 | 44 / 42–47 | 36 / 34–38 | 27 / 26–29 | 21 / 20–23 | 18 / 16–19 | 19 / 18–21 | 24 / 23–26 | 32 / 31–34 | 39 / 38–42 | 46 / 45–50 | 50 / 48–53 |
| RH % | 55 / 52–58 | 56 / 53–59 | 57 / 54–60 | 56 / 54–58 | 54 / 52–56 | 54 / 52–55 | 54 / 52–55 | 54 / 52–57 | 55 / 52–57 | 56 / 53–58 | 56 / 53–58 | 55 / 52–58 |
Each figure is the median across the 153 grid cells holding the 250 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2469:4055 (-33.475, 22.775). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -1.8 °C, 1st-percentile night 1.0 °C, 99th-percentile day 39.4 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 153 distinct grid cells holding the 250 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2469:4055 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -33.50_22.500, lapse-corrected -140 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 604 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) Brian du Preez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Nicola van Berkel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (4).
Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Adromischus triflorus, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
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Gasteria brachyphylla Klein Karoo gasteria
Haworthia mucronata Glassrim Haworthia
Crassula tecta Crassulaceae
Gibbaeum pubescens Fishlips Humpfig
Babiana radiata Monsruber BobbejaantjieOther Adromischus 28 in the reference
Adromischus alstonii Crassulaceae Adromischus bicolor Crassulaceae
Adromischus caryophyllaceus Crassulaceae Adromischus coleorum Crassulaceae
Adromischus cooperi Crassulaceae
Adromischus cristatus Crassulaceae Adromischus diabolicus Crassulaceae
Adromischus fallax Crassulaceae
Adromischus filicaulis Crassulaceae
Adromischus hemisphaericus Crassulaceae
Adromischus humilis Crassulaceae
Adromischus inamoenus Crassulaceae all 29 ›History & registers
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