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Erica inflata
Plant... a smoke-water mixture, or expose the seed trays to burning fynbos plant smoke (in a tent). An acidic, well-drained ... cuttings are planted in a substrate that is favourable to fynbos (such as a mixture of fine-milled bark and perlite). ... the cuttings are potted into 2 kg nursery bags with a fynbos soil mixture after being hardened off for a week in a ...
Acmadenia trigona
Plant... and avoid cultivating the soil around the roots of these fynbos plants. They are slow-growing plants and should not be ... pot the rooted cuttings, using a well-drained, humus-rich, fynbos potting medium (2 parts leaf mould, 1 part coarse ... , a soil and water-borne fungus, attacks the roots of most fynbos species. High soil temperatures promote the growth of ...
Serruria fucifolia
Plant... away from predators like mice. Fire moves through the fynbos in late summer, killing all the mother plants of S. ... the fire. Proteaceae Serruria fucifolia is at home in a fynbos garden but lends itself to being planted into many ... and autumn with a fertilizer specifically formulated for fynbos plants. Another option, instead of fertilising, is to ...
Elegia filacea
Plant... Treat the seed with smoke derived from dry and wet fynbos plants material to break seed dormancy and stimulate ... prevent fungal infection. Lay the seed on the well-drained fynbos soil and cover with a finely sieved fynbos mixture. The seed takes about 4 weeks to germinate. ...
Berzelia abrotanoides
Plant... beetles and other crawling insects. Occurring within fynbos, a naturally fire-driven system, Berzelia species are ... to fully sunny position amongst other moisture loving fynbos species. They do best in acidic soils that are moist ... a member, is one of the distinctive families in the Cape fynbos flora and is mostly endemic to the Western Cape. There ...
Willdenowia incurvata
Plant... is 15–20ºC. The seeds are laid on well-drained fynbos soil and covered with a fine fynbos mixture. The seed takes about 6 weeks to germinate. ... is low. Seeds treated with smoke derived from dry and wet fynbos plants material, has proven to have a very small ...
Protea longifolia
Plant... langblaarsuikerbos (Afr.) Kirstenbosch NBG An evergreen, fynbos shrub that grows about 0.5–1.5 m high and up to ... autumn breaks dormancy and stimulates the germination of fynbos seed. The optimum temperature for germination is ... good drainage. Smoke treating the seed with dry and green fynbos material stimulates germination. At Kirstenbosch, seed ...
Agathosma apiculata
Plant... to large shrub and best used as a filler plant in a mixed fynbos garden. With its bushy growth and dark green leaves, ... and avoid cultivating the soil around the roots of these fynbos plants. They are slow-growing plants and should not be ... pot the rooted cuttings, using a well-drained, humus-rich, fynbos potting medium (2 parts leaf mould, 1 part coarse ...
Lanaria lanata
Plant... fluctuation provides for optimum germination for many fynbos plant species. Fill a seed tray or a container with ... the soil surface. Seeds germinate well when treated with Fynbos Smoke Plus Seed Primer. Cover the seeds with a thin ... is well drained. These plants grow naturally with other Fynbos plants and grow in clay or in sandy, acidic, ...
Leucadendron album
Plant... they have a rotochute to aid dispersal through wind. Fynbos is a fire-dependant ecosystem and Leucadendron album ... to germinate. Prepare seed trays containing a well-drained fynbos mix of bark, silica sand and loam (25:50:25 mix). ... transplant seedlings into pots in a well-drained sandy fynbos mix. Grow on for a year before transplanting into the ...