A beauty to admire but painful to touch: handle with care. These sunflower-like daisies often make very attractive displays, but the thorns on the leaves,...

Conophytums, these peculiar gems with their highly reduced leaves and exposed surfaces, and with flowers resembling miniature shaving brushes, have fascinated...

An attractive garden plant, a tree with edible fruit and white-to-cream flowers....

Berula repanda is a luxuriantly foliaged plant, ideal for a garden pond or wet patch, and it is in full flower now....

Erica quadrangularis is an easy-to-grow, graceful shrub, which turns white or pink during late winter, spring to early summer.when it gets covered in...

Metarungia longistrobus is an unusual, attractive evergreen shrub for the shade garden, with long orange-brown flowers in candle-shaped inflorescences...

The creamy green flowers of this fynbos shrublet usually light up the veld from late summer to late autumn. However its allure doesn't stop there....

A unique and intriguing dwarf succulent with sweet-smelling flowers well-suited to pot cultivation....

In a recent international publication the South African wild yam Dioscorea strydomiana was included among the world's 100 most threatened species....

Euryops virgatus has an extremely limited distribution area, and there are only three very small populations left, totalling a few hundred plants....