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Encephalartos villosus
Encephalartos villosus is one of the most common ornamental dwarf cycads in southern Africa. It is shade-loving and produces leaves which spread out...
Encephalartos woodii
Encephalartos woodii is famous for being extinct in nature, and for the fact that there is no known female specimen on Earth....
Englerophytum magalismontanum
This species is better known by its Afrikaans name, stamvrug and is one of South Africa's more popular veld fruits, a thirst quencher to...
Englerophytum natalense
An attractive garden plant, a tree with edible fruit and white-to-cream flowers....
Ensete ventricosum
This relative of the edible banana is a valuable landscaping plant. Its form, texture and large leaves with conspicuous red midribs, create a lush, tropical...
Eragrostis superba
The large, flat, attractive spikelets on inflorescences that occur well above the basal tuft of leaves make this one of the easiest Eragrostis...
Erepsia pillansii
An erect shrublet with striking magenta and white flowers, Erepsia pillansii is endemic to the Piketberg Mountains....
Erepsia lacera
Erepsia lacera is an erect shrublet with succulent leaves and somewhat rose-like flowers. It belongs to the mesemb family (Mesembryanthemaceae), flowers...
Erica abietina subsp. constantiana
An attractive heath with densely leafy stems and attractive pink flowers in winter to spring, well suited to sunny rockeries, coastal and fynbos gardens...
Erica abietina subsp. atrorosea
Found only on the Cape Peninsula, this heath is known to older mountain walkers as Erica phylicifolia. When Dr Ted Oliver revised this section...
Erica abietina subsp. abietina
Hikers walking on Table Mountain will experience the delights of the amazing diversity of plant life and the many flowers that are to be seen every month...
Erica baccans
Erica baccans is a well-known, showy species that produces bright, cherry-pink splashes of colour on the middle to lower slopes of the Cape Peninsula....
Erica bakeri
Erica bakeri is one of the most threatened species in the Ericaceae family. It is only known from one locality that is threatened by alien vegetation,...
Erica baueri subsp. baueri
Erica baueri subsp. baueri is one of the most popular and widely cultivated of the South African species. It is one of the few ericas that regularly...
Erica blenna var. grandiflora
Erica blenna var. grandiflora is unusual in flower shape and colour and these attributes contribute to making South African ericas uniquely...
Erica brachialis
Erica brachialis is not the showiest of ericas; it is a long-lived, easy-to-grow and discreetly decorative shrub that is well suited to coastal gardens...
Erica caffra
When walking along a stream or near a wetland on a warm day in spring or early summer, a strong sweet smell is sometimes the first indication that one...
Erica canaliculata
Erica canaliculata is a most impressive species that grows into a small tree that is covered with thousands of small pink flowers in summer. This...
Erica caterviflora
Erica caterviflora is a magnificent erica that was thought to have become extinct by the early 1990s, but the author rediscovered it in 2006 while...
Erica cerinthoides
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