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Leucospermum truncatulum
Plant... and has fine and sensitive roots that cannot cope with strong fertilisers. Feed with diluted liquid fertiliser or ... to 30° F). Leucospermum truncatulum is well suited to the fynbos garden, gardens on sandy flats and coastal gardens. It ... and the shrubbery, rockery, slopes and terraces in non-fynbos gardens, and summer-rainfall gardens, provided the ...
Erica shannonea
Plant... tube is sticky, shiny, porcelain-white turning to pink in strong sunlight. The flower shape is ampullaceous, meaning ... at the end of a branch. Erica shannonea grows in sandstone fynbos in mountainous areas a little inland from the coast. ... that it is grown in close association with other fynbos species such as other ericas, buchus and restios. It ...
Muraltia heisteria
Plant... plant that should do well in most gardens. Being a fynbos plant adapted to nutrient-poor, acidic soils, strong wind, high temperatures and summer drought, this species is perfect for fynbos and water-wise gardens. It can be planted in full sun ...
Protea namaquana
Plant... carmine, 90–100 mm in diameter. Open flowerheads emit a strong yeasty odour. This plant flowers in winter and spring ... Protea namaquana is rare and an outlier in its natural fynbos habitat, that has been separated from the main ... by small animals, such as mice, which are attracted by the strong yeasty odour emitted by the newly opened ...
Tetragonia fruticosa
Plant... which 12 species occur in the Klein Karoo and about 10 are fynbos species. These perennial plants, are palatable to game ... value and is water-wise. It is ideal for coastal, fynbos and karoo gardens, and has a place in the kitchen ...
Ixianthes retzioides
Plant... no success has been achieved even when planted next to strong flowing streams. Cuttings root rapidly in a sandy ... acidic sandstone habitat the plants are best grown in a fynbos potting mixture (a quartzitic sandstone-based, ...
Salvia chamelaeagnea
Plant... a dense shrub, growing almost 2 metres high, with many strong, upright stems. The stems are square- shaped, a ... The leaves are dotted with glands which emit a very strong scent when touched and leave a sticky, bitter-tasting ... adapted to survive fires, which regularly sweep though the fynbos vegetation, by resprouting from its woody rootstock. ...
Erica galpinii
Plant... close to 700 species in the CFR, and the ericas of the Fynbos are renowned for the extraordinary diversity of size, ... derived from sandstone, and ideally suited to mountain fynbos gardens. It can be hardy if planted in the right ... of the season fall, this allows them to settle in and grow strong during the rainy winter, and they are thus able to ...
... in sheltered areas where they are protected from fire and strong winds. The lower branches generally droop, so that the ... a useful hedge. It looks best when interplanted with other fynbos species with the same water requirements. Plant at ... comprises 48 species, most of which grow in the fynbos of the south-western Cape. A number of species do ...
Erica sessiliflora
Plant... Erica sessiliflora is an erect, woody, densely branched, strong-growing shrub, 1-2 m high. The branches are covered in ... fire by storing the seeds in a fire-safe environment. Many fynbos species also store their seeds on the bush for many ... removes diseased material. Grow Erica sessiliflora in the fynbos garden where it looks very attractive inter-planted ...