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Streptocarpus gardenii
Plant... shade with good ventilation is best for growing healthy plants with plenty of flowers. Streptocarpus gardenii is a ... should be done with care. It is very important that the plants should not be over-watered, to avoid rotting and ... flowers as these encourage fungal growth, and to keep the plants looking attractive. The tips of the leaves often die ...
Aloe andersonii
Plant... NBG Aloe andersonii has a perennial rootstock and plants sprout from the base, forming dense clusters, up to ... andersonii , close-up of the flower. (Photo Philip Nel) Plants grow in a relatively safe cliff-face environment where ... stems also act as an insulator in the event of fire and plants that are damaged in a fire soon resprout afterwards. ...
Clivia robusta
Plant... which can reach 1.80 cm in length. The habit is upright. Plants flower in late autumn to mid-winter, producing ... plant also help to stabilize the bank. Suitable companion plants are Scadoxus multiflorus subsp. Katharinae, Crinum ... as they are tall, strong growers. To maintain good-quality plants and displays it is important to replant every five ...
Asclepias genus
Plant... woody rootstock. All parts exude milky latex when bruised. Plants usually small (less than 400 mm tall), with their ... are very attractive, but relatively short lived and these plants are mostly vegetative. Indigenous species are not at ... African gardens and sometimes available from nurseries If plants are cultivated, it is usually by interested ...
Asclepias
Plant... woody rootstock. All parts exude milky latex when bruised. Plants usually small (less than 400 mm tall), with their ... are very attractive, but relatively short lived and these plants are mostly vegetative. Indigenous species are not at ... African gardens and sometimes available from nurseries If plants are cultivated, it is usually by interested ...
Kumara haemanthifolia
Plant... and usually suckers freely to form groups of up to 20 plants at a time. These soft-bodied, thornless succulents ... that lend a characteristic fan-like appearance to the plants which grow to approximately 500 mm in height. Superficially the plants look somewhat like a sister species, Kumara plicatilis ...
Miraglossum davyi
Plant... herb with a deep-seated, cylindrical and elongated tuber. Plants are usually unbranched. Aerial parts are deciduous, ... seen. No pollinators have been observed visiting these plants. Plants usually grow in annually burnt grassland. These fires ...
Euphorbia umfoloziensis
Plant... the female and male flowers are fused in a cyathium. While plants of some Euphorbia species are bisexual, the plants of others are either male or female and plants of both sexes are required to produce seed. Many ...
... (Eng.); Langeberg dwergaalwyntjie (Afr.) Kirstenbosch NBG Plants dwarf-sized, rosulate, prolific from the base, forming ... dry, well-drained cliffs. Fig. 4. A cluster of a few plants of the Langeberg cliff haworthia ( Haworthia retusa ... colour of the leaf and the large translucent windows. The plants are tightly arranged, the leaves bright green to ...
Gasteria excelsa
Plant... ox-tongue (Eng.); ruigte-beestong (Afr.) Kirstenbosch NBG Plants with very short stem, robust, usually with solitary ... ascending, spreading to somewhat recurved, brittle; new plants proliferate from leaf fragments. The upper surface is ... or blunt, bearing a short hard point (mucro). Juvenile plants with leaves distichous (in two vertical rows on ...