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Senegalia burkei
Senegalia burkei is a distinctive deciduous tree that can be identified easily throughout the year. It has spikes of creamy white flowers in early summer,...
Senegalia caffra
This beautiful tree is the most common naturally occurring senegalia in the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden. It may reach up to 14m and has an...
Senegalia galpinii
This is a large tree with luxuriant, light green foliage, making it ideal for a big garden, avenue or park. It is also valued by farmers. This tree...
Senegalia mellifera subsp. detinens
This is a thorny shrub or small tree with sweetly scented flowers and with hard, attractive wood....
Senegalia nigrescens
Senegalia nigrescens is a deciduous, small to medium-sized tree which occurs in various savanna regions, often at low altitudes, and in rocky areas, on...
Senegalia polyacantha subsp. campylacantha
This is one of the most attractive acacias in Africa. It often has one stem with branching commencing fairly high up, and a neat flattish crown. It has...
Seriphium plumosum
This intricately branched, heath-like shrublet is well known to hikers who use the plant to make soft mattresses when sleeping outdoors. It might be better...
Serruria adscendens
Serruria adscendens is an attractive, rounded shrub of slopes and flats, in the coastal fynbos between Betty's Bay and Bredasdorp in the Western Cape....
Serruria aemula
Serruria aemula once occurred in huge stands on the Cape Flats near Cape Town from Milnerton to Rondebosch. Sadly this beautiful species has been reduced...
Serruria brownii
Serruria brownii is a charming and unusual shrublet. It can be tricky to cultivate but when growing happily will reward you with dense soft foliage...
Serruria candicans
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Serruria cyanoides
The genus Serruria is one of the genera of the protea family, and is found only in the Cape Floral Kingdom. ...
Serruria decipiens
The Sandveld spiderhead is a small rounded fynbos shrub with clusters of sweetly scented, creamy white flowers in spring; it is well suited to fynbos gardens...
Serruria dodii
An upright shrub, often many-branched, that produces silver-pink, sweetly scented flowerheads at the tips of the branches, in spring....
Serruria elongata
Among the elegant fynbos plants belonging to the Proteaceae family is Serruria elongata, also known as the long-stalk spiderhead, with its silvery pink,...
Serruria fasciflora
Serruria fasciflora is a beautiful shrublet that produces sweetly scented, silvery pink flowers all year round; definitely a very rewarding garden...
Serruria florida
The delicate beauty of Serruria florida justifies its recognition as the most beautiful of the genus....
Serruria fucifolia
Serruria fucifolia is a charming medium-sized fynbos shrub. During late winter and early spring it is covered in sweetly-scented silver-pink flowers....
Serruria furcellata
This critically endangered spiderhead is being squeezed from its home by urbanization near greater Cape Town....
Serruria glomerata
Serruria glomerata is an attractive fynbos shrub that belongs in the Protea Family and occurs naturally only on the Cape Peninsula. Its compact rounded...