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Agathosma muirii

Plant
Common names: Muir’s buchu, heart-leaf buchu (Eng.); Muir-boegoe (Afr.)
Family: Rutaceae

... of roughly 150 species of small to large evergreen shrubs. This genus, as well as Diosma , Coleonema, Acmadenia ...

16/12/2025 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Leucadendron argenteum

Plant
Common names: silver tree (Eng.), witteboom, silwerboom (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

... a few outliers in KwaZulu-Natal. They are all dioecious shrubs or trees, and are known as conebushes because the ...

16/12/2025 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Leucadendron rubrum

Plant
Common names: spinning top conebush (Eng.); tolletjiesbos, waretolbos (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

... planting between other brightly coloured flowering fynbos shrubs such as  Leucospermum tottum ,  Erica baccans ,  ...

16/12/2025 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Orbea melanantha

Plant
Common names: short-lobed brown carrion flower, black or dark flowered caralluma (Eng.); kort-lob bruin aasblom (Afr.)
Family: Apocynaceae

... from the hot rays of the sun by the shade of thickets and shrubs, but some can grow in full sun. Plants prefer early ...

16/12/2025 | | National Herbarium Pretoria

Leucospermum grandiflorum

Plant
Common names: grey-leaf fountain pincushion, rainbow pincushion (Eng.)
Family: Proteaceae

... box overnight, and uncover them in the day time. Once the shrubs have woody growth and are approximately three years ...

16/12/2025 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Fynbos Biome

Vegetation

... ; Thyme Family (Thymelaeaceae):  Passerina . All these shrubs are characterized by their small, tough, grey leaves. ...

Cotyledon tanquana

Plant
Common names: Tanqua cotyledon (Eng.); tankwaplakkie (Afr.)
Family: Crassulaceae

... with leaves in opposite pairs. They vary from large shrubs 3 m tall, such as C. velutina , to flat-growing mat ...

16/12/2025 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

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