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Jensenobotrya lossowiana
This perhaps the most peculiar of all the mesembs, found only in a small isolated area in the Namib desert; yet it is easy to propagate....
Jatropha zeyheri
A common medicinal plant used in women’s health care in many rural communities in southern Africa....
Jasminum multipartitum
This is a very rewarding plant with sweetly scented, white, waxy flowers displayed against glossy, dark green foliage. Consider it a 'must-have'...
Jasminum angulare
An evergreen creeper or rambling shrub, with fragrant white flowers in summer; a good garden plant or pot plant for full sun to light shade....
Jamesbrittenia microphylla
A striking plant with purple, star-like flowers, that are mostly present throughout out the year....
Jamesbrittenia kraussiana
An attractive herbaceous perennial with lush green foliage and white flowers occurring throughout the year, suitable for planting in full sun in small...
Jamesbrittenia grandiflora
Many people want to know what this stunning plant is when they first see it....
Jamesbrittenia breviflora
Jamesbrittenia breviflora grows wild in the Drakensberg and has beautiful reddish-purple flowers with a bright lemon-yellow centre....
Jamesbrittenia bergae
This fairly unknown unique, crimson-flowered, herbaceous perennial from the foxglove family rivals many pelargoniums for its intense luminous colour and...
Ixianthes retzioides
This is a beautiful plant, seldom seen. It is a rare endemic, confined to a few streams of the winter-rainfall Western Cape. It has striking, yellow, bell-shaped...
Ixia viridiflora
Ixia viridiflora is one of the most striking and unusual of our winter-rainfall bulbous plants and very few plants can beat it for sheer brilliance of...
Ixia vinacea
Ixia vinacea is a beautiful, critically endangered, winter-growing geophyte from the Western Cape....
Ixia mostertii
Rare and threatened species are always attractive to most people interested in plants. Ixia mostertii is a strikingly beautiful plant that is...
Isolepis
The genus Isolepis R.Br. comprises about 76 species. Members in the genus Isolepis mostly occur in the temperate regions of the southern...
Iridaceae
This is a large family of deciduous or evergreen perennials, many with brightly coloured flowers, which is well represented in South Africa....
Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis
Beach morning glory is a perennial, trailing vine that forms dense mats on beaches and sand dunes. Its bright green, glossy leaves and showy pink flowers,...
Ipomoea oenotheroides
An eye-catching, drought-resistant shrublet with bright pink ‘morning glory’ flowers in summer and silvery stems sprouting from inedible tuberous...
Ipomoea oblongata
An exquisite creeper belonging to the morning glory family, with long stems stretched out flat on the ground, and bright, dark mauve, eye-catching flowers...
Ipomoea cairica var. cairica
The coast morning glory, with its big, purple, trumpet-shaped flowers with a dark eye in the centre, makes it close to impossible to pass it by, and it...
Ipomoea albivenia
Ipomoea albivenia is a vigorous perennial deciduous climber up to 10 m long, belonging to the morning glory family (Convolvulaceae)....