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Erica taxifolia
With its showy, bright pink, late summer flowers Erica taxifolia is a colourful addition to the fynbos garden, rockery or patio....
Erica peziza
A beautiful fynbos shrub that turns snowy white when it flowers in spring....
Erica triflora
Erica triflora has been in cultivation for a long time and appears on a list of heaths that were cultivated by Messrs Lee and Kennedy at Hammersmith,...
Erica turgida
Erica turgida is an erect, bushy plant 300-400 mm high, with slender, willowy and slightly hairy branches. ...
Erica urna-viridis
Erica urna-viridis is a very unusual erica as it produces green sticky flowers. This is a very unusual colour in the Cape Flora....
Elephantorrhiza burkei
This low -growing tree boasts fragrant, creamy white to yellow flowers in early summer and can also be successfully grown in a container, as it has a non-aggressive...
Erica ventricosa
Erica ventricosa, with its exquisite flowers and dense, compact habit, is one of the most attractive of the Erica species. ...
Euphorbia umfoloziensis
In a hot river valley in northern KwaZulu-Natal, this rare, spiny, dwarf succulent can be found. It has only ever been recorded from this one river valley....
Erica verticillata
How could a plant as hardy and strikingly beautiful as Erica verticillata have been allowed to reach the precipice of extinction? Fortunately the story...
Erica patersonii
This is one of a number of erica species that are threatened by urban expansion and farming practices....
Eucomis sonnetteana
This jewel of Mpumalanga is one of the dwarf pineapple lilies, so named, because their flowerheads resemble a pineapple. This one is a recently discovered...
Eriocephalus africanus
Wild rosemary is one of the shrubs that most people in the Cape know because it is so common in the veld and easy to identify with its thin, grey leaves,...
Eriocephalus
Highly aromatic shrubs which are most distinctive when covered in fluffy white fruiting heads from late spring to early summer. Thus the vernacular name, kapokbos (Afrikaans...
Elytropappus rhinocerotis
This plant is now called Dicerothamnus rhinocerotis....
Erythrophysa alata
The intensely red flowers of this small rigid tree are unlike those of any other small tree from Namaqualand....
Erythrina caffra
Erythrina is known as the red genus, and E. caffra is widely loved for its warm red to scarlet-coloured flowers, which appear from...
Erythrina acanthocarpa
This is a very attractive shrub with striking red and green flowers....
Erythrina humeana
The dwarf coral tree is an ideal tree or shrub for the small garden, especially for people who love the scarlet flowers of the common coral tree (Erythrina...
Erica vernicosa
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Erythrina latissima
This most unusual of the South African Erythrina species is an interesting tree with major bird-attracting potential....