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... subsp. viridum occurs along the eastern slopes of the Cape Peninsula from Newlands and Kirstenbosch to the southern ... germination, 4-10°C to 15-20°C, typical of autumn in the Western Cape. Germination can be induced if the seeds are ... the majority occurring in the winter rainfall regions of Western Cape. Leucospermum conocarpodendron (L.) H.Buek ...
Prenia vanrensburgii
PlantCape spinach, sea pumpkin (Eng.); seepampoen, strandspinasie ... out in beds or containers when big enough to handle. The Cape spinach was named by the mesemb specialist at ... Brandfontein (Bredasdorp District) along the coast in the Western Cape (Bolus 1954). The genus Prenia was created by ...
Nicotiana africana
Plant... on the upper south slope, below a sheer cliff, in the western Sptiskoppe, Nambia. Solanaceae Nicotiana africana is ... , the naturalised jantwak ( N. glaucum ) common in the western parts of southern Africa, as well as the ornamental ... the collection on Babylonstoren Farm, Simondium, Western Cape. Nicotiana africana ...
Allium synnotii
Plantwild onion, Cape onion (Eng.), ajuin, wilde-ajuin, ajuintjie, berg-ajuin ... garden at Babylonstoren Farm near Klapmuts in the Western Cape. The wild onion ( Allium synnotii ) can be ... of the umbel of a light pink form, north east of Ceres, Western Cape. Allium synnotii G.Don (= A. dregeanum ...
... into renosterbos ecology was conducted by the great Cape botanist Margaret Levyns (1929). The plant has an ... obtusifrons. This insect is confined to the Eastern Cape and eats only renosterbos. Several other insects appear ... is one of the most widely distributed of an indigenous Cape group which includes Stoebe ( slangbos ), Disparago, ...
Cape buttercup, sparaxis (Eng.); botterblom, ferweel, ... fimbriata being the most widespread as it grows along the western coast belt from Piketberg to Cape Town. The Sparaxis ... to grow in large colonies in damp areas throughout the Western Cape where it thrives on many road verges! The name ...
Nerine bowdenii
Plant... in even the coldest parts of the United Kingdom, but in Cape Town’s mild coastal climate, where winter temperatures ... include the sparkling red or pink N. sarniensis from the Western Cape mountains, renowned for its long-lived cut flowers, the pink N. humilis , another Western Cape member noted for its massed autumn displays ...
Phylica ericoides
Plant... suited to gardens on the sandy coastal areas in the Western and Eastern Cape where it needs little care or extra attention once it is ... found in the southwestern corner of South Africa in the Western Cape and Northern Cape where they are often ...
Gasteria nitida
Plant... nitida is related to Gasteria excelsa from the Eastern Cape. The latter a much larger species usually confined to ... = shiny). G. nitida was first collected at the Cape by Hendrik Swellengrebel, second son of Hendrik Swellengrebel who was Governor at the Cape from 1739 to 1751. Although he was born in the Cape in ...
Carpobrotus mellei
Plant... It is confined to the mountainous regions in the Western Cape, growing on sandstone slopes. It is a trailing and ... edulis , is the most common widely spread in the Western Cape and shares its habitat with C. mellei . Fig. ...