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Faucaria tigrina; photograph Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIF CC BY-SANicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIF

Faucaria tigrina (Haw.) Schwantes

Tiger's-jaw; Tiger Tigerfig; Tiger's-jaws

Aizoaceae · Cape Provinces · listed by its genus as a cactus or succulent

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Faucaria tigrina, photograph Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIFFaucaria tigrina, photograph Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIFFaucaria tigrina, photograph photographed by Egor V. Pasko, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFaucaria tigrina, photograph Cookie, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia CommonsFaucaria tigrina, photograph Stickpen, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsFaucaria tigrina, photograph Tangopaso, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 15 photographs ›

Summary

Faucaria tigrina, tiger jaws (a name it shares with Faucaria felina), is a species of succulent plant in the family Aizoaceae. It is endemic to the southern Cape Provinces of South Africa around Makhanda, and also cultivated as an ornamental. It has fleshy triangular leaves, a clumping habit, and blooms in autumn with yellow daisy-like flowers.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Faucaria tigrina", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Faucaria in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Faucaria in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 19 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 19 of the 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCape Provinces · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-33.283, 26.5 · in the densest population, 19 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 19 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 7 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 19 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Nicola van Berkel, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); photographed by Egor V. Pasko, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Cookie, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons; Stickpen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Tangopaso, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Faucaria 6 in the reference

Faucaria bosscheana Faucaria bosscheana Camdeboo Tigerfig Photo: CC BY, Christiaan ViljoenFaucaria britteniae Faucaria britteniae Aizoaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Brian du PreezFaucaria felina Faucaria felina Cat Tigerfig Photo: CC BY-SA, Diego Delso Faucaria gratiae Aizoaceae Faucaria subintegra Faucaria subintegra Aizoaceae Photo: CC BY, DguendelFaucaria tuberculosa Faucaria tuberculosa Aizoaceae Photo: CC BY, Amada44

Names & registers

Also known as Faucaria tigrina f. splendens; Faucaria tigrina var. splendens; Faucaria tigrina var. tigrina; Mesembryanthemum ringens; Mesembryanthemum tigrinum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Aizoaceae
Described by
(Haw.) Schwantes
Native to
Cape Provinces
Wild records
19 in range · 7 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2219 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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