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Erica galpinii

Erica galpinii
Common names: Galpin’s heath (Eng.)
Family: Ericaceae

... and Pieter Heymann from their observations on iNaturalist. Erica galpinii is an erect shrub that grows up to 1 m tall, ... Flowering is in autumn and winter, from April to June. Erica galpinii is endemic to the Kleinrivier Mountains near ... to survive the fire-prone nature of the CFR over time. Erica galpinii is a reseeder, meaning that the plant is ...

03 / 03 / 2025 | Caroline Marima | Harold Porter NBG
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Serruria hirsuta

Serruria hirsuta
Common names: Swartkops spiderhead, hairy spiderhead (Eng.) Swartkop-spinnekopbossie (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

... Muraltia heisteria , Liparia parva , Watsonia borbonica , Erica corifolia and Syncarpha gnaphaloides . All of these can ...

10 / 02 / 2025 | Mashudu Nndanduleni | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica ampullacea

Erica ampullacea
Common names: flask heath, bottle heath, heath sissie (Eng.); sissieheide, flessieheide, bottelheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... Tony Rebelo for giving permission to use his photographs. Erica ampullacea is a small, often sparsely branched, ... to mid-December. There are two varieties recognized within Erica ampullacea : var. ampullacea and var . obbata (Andrews) ... kept purely in convenience of reference to old figures. Erica ampullacea is a sister taxon to Erica shannonea , and ...

03 / 02 / 2025 | Samkelisiwe Mathonsi | Compton Herbarium
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Erica thomae

Erica thomae
Common names: flypaper heath (Eng.); vliegpapierheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... occurs from mid summer to winter (December to July). Erica thomae includes two formerly recognised taxa, Erica porteri and Erica tenax, that are now synonyms of Erica thomae . These ...

30 / 12 / 2024 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Agathosma muirii

Agathosma muirii
Common names: Muir’s buchu, heart-leaf buchu (Eng.); Muir-boegoe (Afr.)
Family: Rutaceae

... Leucospermum muirii , L. patersonii and L. prostratum , Erica bauera subsp. bauera and E. bauera subsp . gouriqua , ... Leucospermum muirii Phillips, Conophytum muirii N.E. Br., Erica muirii L.Bol. and Leucadendron muirii Phillips. ...

09 / 12 / 2024 | Roger Oliver | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica blandfordia

Erica blandfordia
Common names: yellow wax heath (Eng.); geelwasheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... Botanical Garden November 2024 Acknowledgements : Photo of Erica blandfordia in habitat by Robert Blackhall-Miles and ... is in spring and early summer, from September to December. Erica blandfordia is endemic to southern Africa and has a ... especially the middle to upper slopes of the mountains. Erica blandfordia was observed to be visited by insects. ...

11 / 11 / 2024 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica oblongiflora

Erica oblongiflora
Common names: Agulhas green heath, sticky green heath (Eng.) groentaaiheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... time is from late summer into winter (January to July). Erica oblongiflora is endemic to South Africa and has a ... on the Agulhas Plain. Its habitat is highly threatened. Erica oblongiflora has been observed being visited by ... and various combinations except for blue. The seeds of Erica species are usually very tiny and can lay dormant in ...

22 / 07 / 2024 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica fontana

Erica fontana, fresh flowers at the stem tip
Common names: fountain heath (Eng.); fonteinheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... widens at the mouth. Visually this plant resembles Erica perspicua , the Prince of Wales heath, however, it is ... with fresh and dead flowers on the plant at the same time. Erica fontana is found throughout the southern part of the ... near Paulsberg down to Olifantsbos and further south. Erica fontana is a wetland species and often grows in seepage ...

25 / 12 / 2023 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Amphithalea tomentosa

Amphithalea tomentosa, inflorescence
Common names: hairy amphithalea
Family: Fabaceae

... ridges. It is found among species of Protea , Restio and Erica . Plants in this group of legumes, including ...

18 / 12 / 2023 | Naomi Mdayi | Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
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Erica heliophila

Erica heliophila
Common names: sunlover heath (Eng.); sonliefhebber heide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden November 2023 Erica heliophila grows up to 600 mm tall and forms an erect ... the calyx being small and inconspicuous. The corolla of Erica heliophila is about 6 mm long, urn-shaped with ... appendages at or near the base of the anther cell). Erica heliophila looks similar to Erica tetragona but differs ...

06 / 11 / 2023 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica cubica var. cubica

Erica cubica
Common names: cube heath (Eng.) kubusheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... du Preez and Jenny Potgieter for providing the pictures. Erica cubica is an erect evergreen shrub, and grows quite ... time is in spring and early summer (September to January). Erica seriphiifolia and Erica tetrathecoides are closely related and similar to Erica ...

25 / 09 / 2023 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica calcareophila

Erica calcareophila
Common names: limestone heath (Eng.)
Family: Ericaceae

... 2023 Acknowledgements: images by Kamogelo Solomon Modimola Erica calcareophila is a plant species in the Ericaceae ... and can be hairless or fringed with fine hairs. This erica produces white blooms in groups of up to 6 flowers at ... waxy. It typically blooms in winter, from July to August. Erica calcareophila occurs in the limestone hills of the ...

24 / 07 / 2023 | Yandisa Ndzeku | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica curtophylla

Erica curtophylla. Photo Jenny Potgieter
Common names: curved-leaf heath (Eng.); krulblaarheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... the author thanks Jenny Potgieter for the pictures of Erica curtophylla in habitat and Alice Notten for the ... of it in the Collections Nursery, Kirstenbosch NBG. Erica curtophylla is a low-growing, upright, evergreen shrub, ... seeds  drop to the ground and form the natural seed bank. Erica seeds can lie dormant in the soil for an extensive ...

19 / 06 / 2023 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Osteospermum incanum subsp. incanum

Osteospermum incanum subsp. incanum inflorescence
Common names: grey bietou, grey tick berry (Eng.); grysbietou, fynbietou, vaalsandbietou, vaalbietou, vaalbitou (Afr.)
Family: Asteraceae

... , Searsia lucida , Metalasia densa, Diosma hirsuta , Erica corifolia, E. ferrea, E. imbricata, E. mammosa , E. ...

03 / 04 / 2023 | Roger Oliver | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica empetrina

Flowers of Erica empetrina
Common names: crowberry heath (Eng.); kraaibessieheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... along the upper parts of the branches. Fig. 2 . Leaves of Erica empetrina. The tips of the flowering branches present ... from September to December. Fig. 3. A flowering stem of Erica empetrina. This plant is endemic to the Cape Peninsula ... sandy damp or marshy places in sunny, open areas. Fig. 4 . Erica empetrina with brown flowers at the end of its ...

02 / 01 / 2023 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Tetragonia fruticosa

Tetragonia fruticosa in flower. Photo Nanna Joubert
Common names: sprawling sea coral, trailing dune-spinach (Eng.); kinkelbossie, kinkelklappers, kleinsaadklappiesbrak, klimopkinkelbossie, porseleinbos, slaaibos, wa
Family: Aizoaceae

... habitat types, except upper mountain slopes (Protea and Erica Fynbos) (Vlok 2015). This widespread species grows in ...

19 / 12 / 2022 | Shireen Harris | Karoo Desert NBG
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Erica walkeria

Erica walkeria
Common names: Swellendam heath, quality heath, Walker’s heath (Eng.); swellendamsheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... to Boepeotso Thandolwethu Prince and Hlosi Olerato Amoena. Erica walkeria is an upright shrub that grows about 300 to ... the corolla tube, the pore half the length of the cell. Erica walkeria blooms in the spring, from August to October. ... corolla tube. The type variety is smaller in all respects. Erica walkeria may be confused with Erica fastigiata or ...

05 / 12 / 2022 | Kamogelo Solomon Modimola | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica sitiens

Erica sitiens, pink form in the Erica Living Collection, Kirstenbosch.
Common names: thirsty heath (Eng.) dors-heide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... November 2022 Acknowledgements: images by Alice Notten. Erica sitiens varies in growth form, it can be very low ... have horn-like appendages. Flowering is mainly in summer. Erica sitiens is a South African endemic and is found in the ... occurs, when conditions become favourable for them. Erica Erica sitiens grows well in soil with a pH ranging from ...

07 / 11 / 2022 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica inflata

Erica inflata
Common names: balloon heath, inflated erica (Eng.); ballonheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... NBG Kamogelo Solomon Modimola & Siqamo Yeko (Mr. & Mrs. Erica) Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden September 2022 ... Amoena, and thank Tony Rebelo for providing the images of Erica inflata in its natural habitat, Rickard Adcock and Andrew Stephen Morton for providing the images of Erica inflata with a moth and beetle respectively, and Felix ...

19 / 09 / 2022 | Kamogelo Solomon Modimola | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Erica alopecurus

Erica alopecurus. Photo Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan
Common names: foxtail heath (Eng.); katstertheide (Eng.); chalbeke-e-nyenyane, chesa-litelu, molomo-oa-lekolo-kotoane (Sesotho)
Family: Ericaceae

... the author thanks Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan for the images of Erica alopecurus in fresh flower, from her observation on iNaturalist, all other images by the author. Erica alopecurus is a low, rounded, clustered and erect ... turn brown after flowering. One variety is recognised: Erica alopecurus var. glabriflora , which has a hairless ...

19 / 09 / 2022 | Sibahle Gumede | Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
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