Carrion-flower
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 cm
- wide
- 51 cm
Apocynaceae
Also called Starfish-cactus, Starfishplant
Formerly Ceropegia mixta, Orbea anguinea, Orbea bisulca, Orbea bufonia, and 75 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. & S. Cape Prov.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 51 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; Wikipedia 50–50 cm
- Flowers
- Cream, brownRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Chinese
- 牛角, 明洁犀角, 杂色豹皮花
- Simplified Chinese
- 杂色豹皮花
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Orbea variegata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.