Plants of the Week
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Elaeodendron croceum
Common names: saffron; saffron wood, forest saffron (Eng.); saffraan, bossafraan (Afr.)
Family: Celastraceae
Elaeodendron croceum is an attractive, evergreen tree with a neat, upright shape which can with care be cultivated in gardens large and small....
07 / 06 / 2004 | Robert Archer | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Ekebergia pterophylla
Common names: rock ash (Eng.); rotsessenhout (Afr.); maGwedla (Swahili)
Family: Meliaceae
This is a tidy, attractive, evergreen shrub/tree, with sweetly scented flowers, bearing berries....
07 / 11 / 2005 | Cherise Viljoen | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Ekebergia capensis
Common names: Cape ash, dogplum (E), essenhout (A), mmidibidi (NS), umnyamatsi (SW), nyamaru (Ts)
Family: Meliaceae
This is a large attractive evergreen tree that has been used as a street tree in many towns and cities of South Africa, Uganda and the Democratic Republic...
27 / 12 / 2004 | Mhlonishwa D Dlamini | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Ehrharta calycina
Common names: common ehrharta, common veld grass (Eng.); gewone ehrharta, rooigras, polgras (Afr.)
Family: Poaceae
Ehrharta calycina is usually perennial with strongly geniculate culms (stems), red-flowers and a creeping, branched rhizome....
01 / 09 / 2008 | Aluoneswi Caroline Mashau | Pretoria NBG
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Ehretia rigida
Common names: puzzle bush (Eng.); deurmekaarbos (Afr.); umHlele (Zulu); Morobe (Northern Sotho); iBotshane (Xhosa); Mutepe (Venda)
Family: Boraginaceae
Ehretia rigida is a deciduous small tree or shrub, usually multi-stemmed, with an untidy rounded crown. It has tangled branches which arch downwards or...
23 / 12 / 2003 | Avhurengwi Phillemon Ndou | Walter Sisulu NBG
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