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Mimetes pauciflorus
Plant... family, plays a vital role in the biodiversity of the fynbos. It provides food and habitat for various species, ... are safe from seed-eaters like rodents, and from fire. Fynbos is prone to fires, and Mimetes pauciflorus plants are ... birds, such as the Cape Sugarbird or sunbirds. Some fynbos rodents, in particular the Vlei Rat, eat large amounts ...
Protea nitida
Plant... after flowering. The waboom forms part of South Africas fynbos vegetation and lives up to expectations with its ... seed trays containing a well drained mix of bark and fynbos soil (50:50 mix). Scatter seed on top and lightly ... transplant the seedlings into pots in a well drained sandy fynbos mix. Grow on for a year before transplanting into the ...
Leucospermum glabrum
Plant... taking the nuts into their nests, where they are stored. Fynbos is a fire-dependant ecosystem and Leucospermum glabrum ... 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 ...
Serruria decipiens
Plant... is known as myrmecochory. This plant only occurs in the Fynbos Biome. It is adapted to nutrient-poor sandy soils, ... there is free circulation of air. It is well suited to Fynbos and Sandveld gardens, and gardens on the sandy flats. ... into 1 kg bags in a soil mixture of milled bark and sand fynbos mix in ratio of 1:1. After 14 days cuttings must be ...
... divaricata subsp . divaricata is a small, evergreen, fynbos shrub, that grows about 0.5 m high, and sprawling up ... the cuttings into small nursery plastic bags using a fynbos mixture of well-drained, acidic medium of fine bark, ... the plastic tent and the pipe, in the smoke of burning, fynbos plant material. Smoke-plus seed primer packets are ...
... Diastella divaricata subsp . montana is small, evergreen, fynbos shrub that grows about 0.5 m high and spreads about 2 ... the cuttings into small nursery plastic bags using a fynbos mixture of well-drained, acidic medium of fine bark, ... the plastic tent and the pipe, in the smoke of burning, fynbos plant material. Smoke-plus seed primer packets are ...
Protea aristata
Plant... Too frequent fires can have a devastating effect on Fynbos plants that rely on seed to rejuvenate populations, ... inaccessible ledges, making them able to escape periodic fynbos fires and live to the age of 50 years or more. Birds ... In the garden it is an excellent specimen for the mixed Fynbos garden, or can be planted in rock garden pockets. Once ...
... propagation, same processes as for other species of (fynbos) Pelargonium can followed. Sow seed in early autumn in ... overwatered, but remains moist. Use this shrub in a mixed fynbos garden, where its medium to coarse leaf texture will ... leaf interest with several other smaller leaved species of fynbos like buchus, ericas or some restios. Plant this tough ...
Agathosma gonaquensis
Plant... four true leaves have developed. Use a medium suitable for fynbos. Feed plants regularly but sparingly with a ... pot the rooted cuttings using a well-drained, humus-rich, fynbos potting medium (2 parts leaf mould, 1 part coarse ... and avoid cultivating the soil around the roots of these fynbos plants. They are slow-growing plants and should not be ...
Leucadendron pubescens
Plant... with fungicide and smoke derived from burning wet and dry fynbos plant material to break the seed dormancy. Sow the seeds on well-drained fynbos mix, cover the seeds at about the same depth of the ... the cuttings into small, nursery bags or pots, using a fynbos soil mixture that is well drained and acidic ...