This species has become trendy as of late and I got curious about it, went down a bit of a rabbit hole, and came back without satisfying answers.
I can only find a single source that identifies its native range. It isn't exactly a scholarly source, but it does have pictures purported to be of the plant in habitat. I came across what looks like the most recent academic work on the drosanthemum genus, which includes a phylogeny constructed using DNA sequencing. D. globosum is conspicuously absent from it. I see a d. semiglobosum, but that appears to be a different plant.
I know this isn't a typical posts, but I figured if anywhere had expertise on the subject it'd be here. So is this plant actually a hybrid or mislabeled/misidentified by sellers? Are these academic phylogenies not always complete? Or is there something else I'm not accounting for?
by hm_rickross_ymoh
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[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_id=584232](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_id=584232)
A bunch in the native range. World Of Succulents I think is AI generated usually, or at least just generalizes. try finding what paper described it for more info.