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Serruria elongata
... allowing her to use their pictures in this article. Serruria elongata is one of the perfumed protea family ... rodents or the frequent fynbos fires, as native ants do. Serruria Serruria elongata can make a very ornamental garden shrublet, ...
Serruria zeyheri
... Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden June 2022 Serruria zeyheri is an evergreen shrub that grows up to 0.5 m ... 15-25 tips, with acute points, and hairless when mature. Serruria zeyheri produces 40-55 mm long and 60-70 mm wide ... hairs, and the bracts are glabrous and oblong lanceolate. Serruria zeyheri begins to flower in late winter (August) and ...
Serruria candicans
... Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden April 2019 Serruria candicans is an erect, evergreen shrublet that grows ... are pink with dark tips and silver hairs on the perianth. Serruria candicans begins to produce flowers in midwinter ... are light, nut-like seeds, sparsely covered with hairs. Serruria candicans occurs from the Elandskloof to Slanghoek ...
Serruria decipiens
... Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden December 2015 Serruria decipiens is a small rounded shrub that grows from ... Seeds are released within 2 months of flowering. Serruria decipiens is endemic in South Africa, specifically ... species prefers winter rainfall and frost-free conditions. Serruria decipiens plants are killed by fire and do not ...
Serruria adscendens
... Patricia Mapukata Harold Porter NBG November 2014 Serruria adscendens is a rounded shrub up to 1 m tall and up ... at the base, a fleshy appendage attractive to ants. Serruria adscendens is widespread on sandstone soil, flats ... in wild garden for attracting birds and useful insects. Serruria adscendens is pollinated by insects and a night ...
Serruria fasciflora
... Bavuma Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden August 2014 Serruria fasciflora is a sprawling to erect shrublet growing ... and seeds are released within two month of flowering. Serruria fasciflora is widespread across flats and ... summers and cool wet winters but will not tolerate frost. Serruria fasciflora is specifically adapted for pollination ...
Serruria brownii
... Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden December 2013 Serruria brownii is an upright shrublet growing up to ... a rather scrappy appearance. It is best to replace them. Serruria brownii occurs in the transitional zone between ... on the West Coast all the way south to Cape Town. Serruria brownii is specifically adapted for pollination by ...
Serruria villosa
... Nurrish Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden April 2012 Serruria villosa is an erect shrublet growing 0.3-0.5 m tall ... during the winter months and no frost is experienced. Serruria villosa is adapted to and requires fire for survival ... old and scrappy. At this stage fynbos is ready to burn. Serruria villosa is killed by fire but seed has been ...
Serruria triternata
... Nurrish Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden August 2011 Serruria triternata is an erect shrub growing 1 m tall and ... Hairy brown seeds are produced two months after flowering. Serruria triternata grows in Hawequas Sandstone Fynbos ... the plant from drying out in the hot sun and drying winds. Serruria Plant Serruria triternata in a sunny spot in ...
Serruria fucifolia
... are released approximately two months after pollination. Serruria fucifolia is endemic to the Western Cape and occurs ... ant nests where they were safely protected from the fire. Serruria Serruria fucifolia is at home in a fynbos garden but lends ...
Serruria rosea
... Nurrish Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden August 2010 Serruria rosea is an erect shrub growing 0.8-1 m tall in the ... they are fruits) are released two months after flowering. Serruria rosea is a fynbos species and is restricted to the ... ant nests where they were safely protected from the fire. Serruria The silver pink flowers of S. rosea combine very ...
Serruria glomerata
... Notten Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden July 2010 Serruria glomerata is a compact rounded shrublet, 200-500 mm ... flowerhead, but when it falls to the ground it is exposed. Serruria glomerata is found on sandstone flats and slopes to ... No viable populations remain outside of nature reserves. Serruria glomerata plants are killed by fire and do not ...
Serruria florida
... nut-like seeds which are released about two months later. Serruria florida naturally occurs on the Franschhoek side of ... ants in their underground nests, which form the seed bank. Serruria florida is one of the fynbos species that is highly ... mature enough to produce flowers and the new seed crop. Serruria It is possible to propagate Serruria florida from ...
Serruria trilopha
... Botanical Garden October 2003 updated September 2019 Serruria trilopha is a sprawling, multi-stemmed, resprouting ... The seeds are released within two months of flowering. Serruria trilopha grows in acid, sandy soils at low altitudes ... the road verges of the N7 freeway in the Cape Town area. Serruria trilopha is adapted to surviving in the wild by ...
Serruria furcellata
... Botanical Garden October 2003 updated September 2019 Serruria furcellata is a multi-stemmed, resprouting, erect ... The seeds are released within two months of flowering. Serruria furcellata grows in acid, sandy soils at low ... until conditions are right for them to germinate. Serruria furcellata is also adapted to surviving fires by ...
Serruria cyanoides
... Adams Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden June 2003 Serruria cyanoides is a small, densely branched, ... genus is mainly found in the winter rainfall region, only Serruria fasciflora extends eastwards to the Langeberg Mountains. Serruria is the largest of a group of four closely related ...
Serruria aemula
... Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens November 2002 Serruria aemula forms a sprawling, much-branched shrublet ... in nature since the 1980's and is believed to be extinct. Serruria foeniculacea , which occurs at Rondevlei has also ... has a typically lax growth habit by comparison. Serruria aemula is relatively short-lived and reproduces from ...