Caylusea hexagyna
Care Guide
💧 Water
☀️ Light Full sun
Caylusea hexagyna is a sun-loving, perennial herbaceous plant that comes from open habitats and often thrives in meadows and grasslands. It prefers full sun but can also tolerate partial sun.
🌡️ Temperature 20–37.8°C
Caylusea hexagyna comes from tropical areas, where the climate is generally warm and humid. As a result, it is well suited to high temperatures and humidity. It does not tolerate abrupt temperature changes and prefers a steady thermal environment, so avoiding temperature fluctuations indoors is important. It typically cannot withstand cold conditions and requires warmer temperatures for growth. If the surrounding temperature drops too low, the plant may cease growing or even die.
💨 Humidity
🪴 Soil 6-8
🌱 Fertilizer
Caylusea hexagyna needs the most fertilizer during its active growth period, which occurs mainly in spring, summer, and early fall. Fertilization supplies essential nutrients the soil may lack, encouraging healthy root and stem development as well as the attractive foliage that is an important feature of this plant.
🪴 Pot & Repot
✂️ Pruning
🌿 Propagating
🐛 Diseases & pets
☠️ Toxicity
Characteristics
- Plant Type
- Herb
- Life Cycle
- Perennial
- Genus
- Caylusea
- Family
- Resedaceae
- Hardiness Zone
- 9-11
- Mature Height
- 30 cm to 61 cm
- Mature Spread
- 20 cm to 40 cm
- Leaf Color
- Light Green
- Leaf Type
- Deciduous
- Flower Color
- Yellow
- Flower Size
- 0.51 cm to 0.76 cm
- Bloom Time
- Mid spring, Late spring, Early summer
- Planting Time
- Spring, Summer, Autumn
- Harvest Time
- Summer
- Native Area
- Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq, Syria, India, Egypt, Sudan, Mauritania, Iran, Eritrea, Algeria, Kuwait, Morocco, Yemen, Chad