Cultivar · genus Portulacaria
Mediopicta
Portulacaria afra · ‘Mediopicta’
Guide
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No cultivar-specific guide yet
Until someone writes one, this cultivar follows the Portulacaria afra care below. If you grow ‘Mediopicta’, a few honest paragraphs would give it its own voice.
Care recipe
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Care notes reviewed by Horta
- Light
- ai:claude-code
- Soil
- ai:claude-code
Bright, indirect
≈ every 21 days
Low — average room
10–29 °C
very well-drained compost, such as cactus compost
stem sections rooted in spring with bottom heat
Dilute feed a few times through spring and summer
Slow
small clusters of star-shaped pale pink flowers at stem ends in summer
Not yet documented
Toxicity is a species-level safety fact. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar inherits it and none can override it.
Reference images
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PrimarySources: ai:claude-code
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