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This website celebrates the plants of southern Africa. Each week we bring you two new Plants of the Week and the Information Library contains hundreds of articles about southern Africa plants and related topics. Read More

Plants of the week

Common names: Visser’s ox-tongue (Eng.); Visser-beestong (Afr...

Gasteria visseri is a compact, slow-growing succulent, with dark...

Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria visseri

Common names: goldhead thatchreed (Eng.)

A dwarf, densely tufted restio, which shows off its large...

Kirstenbosch NBG

Thamnochortus acuminatus

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Gardening with South African Plants

We have added a new Gardening with South African Plants section to the Information Library where we will be putting all gardening related topics. Our first article is on gardening with fragrant and aromatic plants.

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