Dorstenia cuspidata seeds grow into a succulent caudiciform plant from the dry shrubland biome of East Africa described by the botanist Hochstetter from material collected in Ethiopia, making this an East African species rather than South American as sometimes erroneously cited. Like all caudiciform Dorstenia, it develops a swollen stem base and bears the distinctive flat, shield-like or stellate inflorescences of the genus in the fig family. The epithet cuspidata means ‘with a sharp point’, referring to a pointed character of the leaves or receptacle. Family Moraceae.

Full sun to light shade, very sharp drainage and a dry cool-season rest replicate the conditions of its East African dry habitat.

• Sharply pointed character the meaning behind the epithet ‘cuspidata’
• Swollen caudiciform stem; flat open inflorescences; Moraceae (fig family)
• East Africa (Ethiopia) dry shrubland biome; described by Hochstetter
• Caudiciform succulent subshrub; explosive seed dispersal
• Full sun to light shade; very sharp drainage; dry cool-season rest

Dorstenia cuspidata is an authentic East African caudiciform from Hochstetter’s Ethiopian collections a pointed-leaved member of the extraordinary succulent Dorstenia flora of the Horn of Africa and surrounding dry zones.

IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.