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Gooseberry Plant
Curio herreanus
Curio herreanus, syn. Senecio herreanus, which is also known as string of watermelons, string of beads, gooseberry plant and string of raindrops, is a flowering succulent plant in the daisy family Asteraceae that is native to Namibia. It is grown as an ornamental plant and is very similar in appearance to 'string of pearls', where the names may be conflated.
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Description
Features 30 cm (12 in) long trailing stems and subglobose leaves that are dark green with purple stripes. It looks similar to string of pearls and string of tears, but has larger and longer leaves that, in a bright setting, would deepen the purple tones. Flowers are small with anthers that sit outside the small tube created by the petals, typical of Curio species.
== References ==
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.221
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.780
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.219
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.1049
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.343
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.707
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.757
Illustrations and Descriptions of Plants
Dominicus Chabrae · 1678 · p.706
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 913207.