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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 cyanoides
The genus Serruria is one of the genera of the protea family, and is found only in the Cape Floral Kingdom. ...
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 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...
Serruria rosea
Serruria rosea is one of the showiest spiderheads, producing a spectacular display of up to 20 rose-pink tightly clustered flower heads per stem....
Serruria triternata
The Tulbagh spiderhead is a charming fynbos shrub suited to an informal indigenous garden. It is rather nondescript when not flowering but in spring time...
Serruria villosa
Serruria villosa is a charming sweetly scented shrublet suited to the wild fynbos garden....
Serruria trilopha
This critically endangered member of the protea family makes an unusual addition to sandy coastal gardens....
Setaria megaphylla
Setaria megaphylla may be found along rivers in low-lying areas or forests and in dense bushveld where there is plenty of moisture. ...
Sideroxylon inerme
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Silene undulata
This small herb is used as a 'dream plant'....
Siphonochilus aethiopicus
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Solanum aculeastrum
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Solanum giganteum
This big shrub with its colourful, long-lasting berries and large leaves with silvery undersides, makes an unusual hedge or background plant....
Sorghum bicolor
This crop plant has been cultivated in southern Africa for over 3 000 years....
Sparaxis grandiflora subsp. grandiflora
Sparaxis grandiflora is indeed an attractive species and it is not surprising that it was introduced to Kew Gardens as early as 1758. However, as Du Plessis...
Sparaxis elegans
Sparaxis elegans is, as its name suggests, one of the most elegant and aesthetically pleasing species the Greater Cape Floristic Region (GCFR) has to...
Sparaxis maculosa
Known from only two localities, one recently discovered, this spectacularly large-flowered species is sadly frail in its magnificence, a shadow cast upon...
Sparrmannia africana
Sparrmannia africana is an easy-to-grow large shrub for a shady area with lush, soft, heart-shaped leaves and pretty white flowers with a puff of...
Spatalla mollis
Spatalla mollis boasts attractive flower headlets of white or mauve flowers from July to December. The small shrubs blend in well with the surrounding...