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Euphorbia meloformis
Euphorbia meloformis is a distinctive globose succulent plant endemic to the arid regions of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, recognized for its ribbed,...
Streptocarpus silvaticus
In the cool, shaded forests of eastern South Africa grows a delicate flowering plant that many people walk past without noticing. Growing on moss-covered...
Conophytum luckhoffii
Conophytum luckhoffii is a dwarf, mat-forming to cushion-shaped, cliff-hugging summer-dormant succulent. The leaves are fused into a beautifully ornamented...
Gladiolus undulatus
This seldom seen vleipypie adds a pleasant surprise to a garden with its tall spikes of large pale flowers with long wavy tepals during the late spring...
Erepsia heteropetala
Erepsia heteropetala is a cushion-shaped or pendent cliff-hugging shrublet with sickle-shaped succulent leaves and mauve-pink flowers in spring and summer....
Portulaca oleracea
Portulaca oleracea, commonly known as purslane, is a cosmopolitan succulent weed often seen growing between pavement cracks and along roads. Despite its...
Gnidia oppositifolia
A willowy fynbos shrub with pale yellow tubular flowers almost all year round. It is known to be one of the plants that recovers fast or resprouts after...
Syncolostemon albiflorus
Indigenous to the mountainous region of northeastern southern Africa, white sagebush is a specialist of harsh, exposed environments and thrives in cracks...
Delosperma purpureum
Delosperma purpureum is a striking, low-growing succulent that creates a vibrant display of rich purple hues. Its fleshy foliage supports a profusion of...
Rhombophyllum rhomboideum
The diamond-leaved rhombophyllum is one of five species in the genus, distinguished by its distinctive diamond-shaped leaves. These leaves are borne on...
Plectranthus hereroensis
See Coleus hereroensis...
Coleus hereroensis
Unlike the Coleus varieties with bright and showy foliage often used in summer bedding schemes, Coleus hereroensis is recognised for its gentle texture...
Drosanthemum anemophilum
Drosanthemum anemophilum is an erect spindly cliff-squatting shrub to 1.5 m tall. The leaves are succulent, linear and light pink to white flowers appear...
Crassula macowaniana
Crassula macowaniana is a much branched rounded succulent shrub to 1 m high with finger-like leaves and beautiful rounded inflorescences of white fragrant...
Freesia refracta
Freesia refracta is a deciduous winter-growing geophyte with showy pale greenish or dull white flowers with orange markings. It adds beautiful colour and...
Crassula rupestris subsp. marnierana
Crassula rupestris subsp. marnierana is a cliff-hugging succulent shrublet, often becoming a hanger on ledges, bearing branches densely covered in rounded...
Crassula inopina
Crassula inopina is a cluster-forming spreading succulent, bearing four-ranked leafy branches and conspicuous rounded inflorescences in midwinter, of bi-coloured...
Bergeranthus addoensis
A mat-forming, drought resistant succulent with a distinctive ring-forming growth habit and bright yellow diurnal flowers in summer, only known from the...
Crassula cymbiformis
Crassula cymbiformis is a dwarf, sparingly dividing succulent plant with boat-shaped leaves in 4-ranked rosettes, the leaves not mottled and becoming reddish...