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Haworthia marumiana var. batesiana

Plant
Common names: Camdebo cliff haworthia (Eng.), Kamdebo-dwergaalwyntjie (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... in a greenhouse. Better to grow these decorative, dwarf, aloe-like succulents in containers. Grow in a sandy, ...

24/01/2022 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Haworthiopsis limifolia

Plant
Common names: file-leaf haworthiopsis (Eng.); isihlalakahle, omathithibala, umathithibala (isiZulu)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... a semi-shaded position, under big succulent plants, like Aloe or Euphorbia , or planted in a rock garden in between ...

28/03/2022 | | Walter Sisulu NBG

Sagittanthera mzimvubuensis

Plant
Common names: Mzimvubu-ruby (Eng.); kransrobyn (Afr.)
Family: Hyacinthaceae

... was named by the author as Drimia mzimvubuensis in the Aloe magazine (Van Jaarsveld & Van Wyk 2005). Sagittanthera ...

04/01/2016 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Cotyledon pendens

Plant
Common names: cliff cotyledon (Eng.); kransplakkie, kransklokkie (Afr.)
Family: Crassulaceae

... plants. The plant was named by the author in the magazine Aloe in 2003. The specific epithet pendens pertains to its ...

17/08/2009 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Cyrtanthus flammosus

Plant
Common names: Kouga flame lily (Eng.); Kouga-vlamlelie (Afr.)
Family: Amaryllidaceae

... along the Kouga Dam on a boating expedition searching for Aloe pictifolia , on 11 November 1993. It was named by the ...

22/07/2013 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Dierama reynoldsii

Plant
Common names: This species does not appear to have a common name of its own, but the genus Dierama is known as hairbells, fairybells, wandflowers; grasklokkies (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae

... 40 000 km and collected numerous plants in addition to his aloe specimens; this dierama is one. Remarkably for such an ...

27/06/2005 | | KwaZulu-Natal NBG

Gasteria brachyphylla

Plant
Common names: Klein Karoo ox-tongue (Eng.); Klein Karoo-beestong, boesmanrys (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... in 1731 (Aiton 1789). Prince Salm Dyck named named it Aloe brachyphylla in 1840, which was transferred to Gasteria ...

27/08/2012 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria carinata

Plant
Common names: Keeled ox-tongue, Bredasdorp gasteria (Eng.); Bredasdorp-beestong (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... was first described by Oldenland under the phrase name "Aloe africana flore rubro folio triangulari et verrucoso ab ...

09/04/2012 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria doreeniae

Plant
Common names: Doreen's gasteria (Eng); Swartwaterspoort-beestong (Afr)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... (E. Cape). It was first described in the succulent journal Aloe in 2004. Gasteria doreeniae Van Jaarsv. & A.E.van Wyk ...

04/04/2011 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gasteria ellaphieae

Plant
Common names: Ellaphie's gasteria
Family: Asphodelaceae

... unexpectedly by the author in 1989 whilst searching for Aloe pictifolia plants, which are also endemic to the area. ...

18/04/2011 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

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