Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 1 botanical country
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Provinces | CPP | AFRICA |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 335 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 6.9 °C | 11.0 °C | 12.9 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 19.6 °C | 22.4 °C | 27.8 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 452 mm | 773 mm | 1,255 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 35 mm | 85 mm | 137 mm |
It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 335 research-grade observations of Agathosma imbricata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 31 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Agathosma acuminata (J.C.Wendl.) Willd.
- Agathosma acuminata var. candollei Regel
- Agathosma acuminata var. subcordata (Hoffmanns.) Regel
- Agathosma cordata Hoffmanns.
- Agathosma gracilipetala Dümmer
- Agathosma juncea Hoffmanns.
- Agathosma lambii Dümmer
- Agathosma lycopodioides Bartl. & H.L.Wendl.
- Agathosma obtusata G.Don
- Agathosma polyphylla C.Presl
- Agathosma pseudimbricata Dümmer
- Agathosma reflexa Link
- Agathosma subcordata Hoffmanns.
- Agathosma thymifolia Hoffmanns.
- Agathosma vestita Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
- Agathosma virgata
- Bucco acuminata J.C.Wendl.
- Bucco imbricata (L.) J.C.Wendl.
- Bucco obtusata J.C.Wendl.
- Bucco vestita Roem. & Schult.
- Diosma acuminata (Wendl.) C.C.Gmel.
- Diosma cordata Mart.
- Diosma imbricata Thunb.
- Diosma lycopodioides Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
and 7 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.