Hoodia Gordonii plants grow in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. The Kalahari Desert is over 110,000 square miles of arid African desert. The Hoodia Gordonii plant grows wild in the Kalahari Desert area of South Africa and while it looks like a cactus , it is categorized as a succulent. The hoodia plant has been consumed for centuries by the locals of the Kalahari to stop hunger and thirst when they traveled across the massive desert.

Hoodia is also successfully cultivated in several countries around the world including China, Mexico and even the United States. Several sources report that only hoodia from South Africa contains large quantities of the appetite surpressing P57 molecule.

To get the true effects of the hoodia P57 molecule be sure to get only hoodia gordonii that comes from South Africa.