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Merwilla plumbea
Merwilla plumbea is a graceful perennial bulb, and with its tall plumes of blue flowers, the showiest of the South African scillas. Merwilla plumbea is...
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...
Ursinia cakilefolia
Bright and cheerful, the annual ursinias are some of the easiest plants to grow for spring colour. ...
Crinum bulbispermum
Crinum bulbispermum is a highly attractive garden subject and can be grown all over South Africa provided it is given adequate water during its growing...
Scadoxus puniceus
The spectacular paintbrush lily is one of South Africa's most striking bulbous plants. This species is quite variable and a number of different forms...
Pelargonium betulinum
Pelargonium betulinum is dazzling in full flower, deserving of a place in any garden....
Mackaya bella
A graceful shrub or small tree with slender branches bearing glossy, dark green leaves and beautiful sprays of showy, white to mauve, bell-shaped flowers...
Leucadendron laxum
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Tapinanthus rubromarginatus
This is a semi-parasitic aerial shrub with specialized roots called haustoria that grow into the wood of the host plant and extracts oil minerals...
Lachenalia mathewsii
Lachenalia mathewsii is an attractive, deciduous, winter-growing bulb, standing 10-20 cm tall....
Pelargonium suburbanum subsp. suburbanum
A groundcover with showy magenta flowers in spring and early summer, ideal for sandy banks, rockeries and hanging baskets. Many species and hybrids of Pelargonium are...
Dombeya rotundifolia
This lovely tree gets its English common name, wild pear, from the masses of white blooms which appear before the leaves in early spring. It bears a resemblance...
Freylinia tropica
This shrub makes a good garden subject for summer rainfall areas....
Felicia elongata
Felicia elongata is a striking perennial daisy, with large white or mauve flowers. What makes this Felicia so different from the other felicias, is the...
Schotia brachypetala
A handsome tree with a wide-spreading, rounded crown, and bright red, nectar-filled flowers in spring and early summer that attract many birds and insects;...
Erythrina acanthocarpa
This is a very attractive shrub with striking red and green flowers....
Veltheimia bracteata
Veltheimia bracteata is a beautiful deciduous bulb with a moderate to fast growth rate. The inflorescence is a dense raceme of tubular flowers carried...
Acokanthera oppositifolia
The Bushman's poison is a medium to large woody shrub with attractive hard dark green leaves. ...
Hermannia saccifera
Hermannia saccifera is fairly widespread along the southern coast of South Africa, where it occurs on stony clay slopes from the Riviersonderend mountains...
Clivia miniata
A striking plant, an international star, with its dark green leaves and trumpet-shaped orange flowers, Clivia miniata is the ideal plant for the...