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Helianthemum squamatum
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Helianthemum squamatum is a species of low woody herbaceous plant native to Spain and Algeria. It is the only known species able to extract water of crystallization from rock and is able to derive up to 90% of its fluid requirements from gypsum using this process.
- Family
- Cistaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Helianthemum squamatum
- Slug
- helianthemum-squamatum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cistaceae
- Genus
- Helianthemum
- Species
- squamatum
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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