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Erica discolor
Erica discolor is a very common and variable species complex that used to consist of two well-known and widespread species namely, Erica discolor and Erica...
Erica sitiens
This upright or sprawling shrub becomes covered with masses of pink, red or white flowers, or a combination of red with white lobes, during the summer...
Elegia tectorum
This restio makes a most attractive garden plant, and can be used for thatching....
Encephalartos eugene-maraisii
This is a medium-sized to large, bluish-green cycad, which is suited to cool subtropical and temperate regions....
Erica 'Gengold'
It is not often that one unearths a gem that has developed by chance. The hybridisation of two species of Erica in the Harold Porter National Botanical...
Erica sparsa var. sparsa
Erica sparsa is a free-flowering, relatively easy-to-grow, fynbos shrub that produces masses of small flowers in late summer, autumn and winter, that turn...
Erica irregularis
A very special and beautiful plant that only occurs naturally in one place in the whole world. During the winter months, it transforms the landscape around...
Erica walkeria
Erica walkeria is a densely leafy, shrubby heath with masses of starry, pink, urn-shaped flowers in small heads in spring, and makes a rewarding potplant...
Eucomis humilis
This irresistible, remarkable Eucomis humilis is one of the miniature Eucomis species. A summer-growing bulb with wavy margined leaves and an inflorescence...
Erica empetrina
Erica empetrina boasts with a burst of pink to red flowers in spring, from September to December.Fig. 1. Flowers of Erica empetrina....
Erica sociorum
Erica sociorum is the most localized of all Cape Peninsula endemic ericas, and only found growing in a very limited area on cliffs above Noordhoek....
Encephalartos nubimontanus
A stunning, desirable, fast-growing cycad, with beautiful, twisted, grey-blue leaves; illegal collecting of wild plants, because it is in high demand as...
Erica tragulifera
This attractive, evergreen, little plant boasts with an eye-catching display of white flowers from winter until almost the end of spring....
Erica lutea
A small fynbos shrublet which has masses of shiny white to yellow flowers in late summer and autumn....
Euchaetis meridionalis
This is an amazingly tough and hardy plant, a diehard that can last for years, and a very useful filling-type of shrub for the coastal fynbos garden....
Euphorbia nesemannii
A spiny, tuberous rooted species with a nearly cylindrical body, most of which is below the ground....
Euphorbia triangularis
A spiny, succulent tree with angled, segmented branches that leak a watery milky latex when damaged; it belongs in the spurge family, one of the largest...
Erica unicolor subsp. georgensis
This shrubby heath produces clusters of red, tubular flowers with light yellow tips, which make it very eye-catching when reaching its flowering peak in...
Esterhuysenia inclaudens
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Euryops linifolius
Euryops linifolius is a lovely evergreen shrub with grey-green, needle-like foliage and bright yellow flowers in spring. Occurring naturally in the drier...