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Lachenalia fistulosa
PlantCape hyacinth; viooltije (Afr.) Kirstenbosch NBG The Cape hyacinth consists of a single white fleshy bulb, about ... dry summer months in the Mediterranean-type climate of the Western Cape. Lachenalia fistulosa has sweetly scented ...
Lampranthus tegens
Plant... in open ground in full sunlight, such as clay flats of the Cape Peninsula, Cape Flats to Somerset West and south of ... the plant from Paarden Island on the Cape Peninsula (Western Cape), in 1897. Brown commented that the plant was ... However, today we know it is definitely indigenous to the Western Cape and rather the reverse should be true. Louisa ...
... in spring and early summer, the most windy seasons in the Western Cape. The filiform (thin, wire-like) leaves, that are ... pers.comm.) Plant in well-drained sandy soil. In the Western Cape, under normal climatic conditions, they could be ...
Watsonia vanderspuyiae
Plant... of W. vanderspuyiae are relished by Chacma baboons and Cape porcupines, and evade these predators by wedging ... its centre of diversity in the southwestern part of the Western Cape. Some of its best known members from the southwestern Western Cape include the showy pink- or rarely white-flowered ...
Osmitopsis asteriscoides
Plant... was also applied to two similar looking species in the Cape by early European settlers. Early collectors and ... Family, or Asteraceae, is an important plant family in the Cape Floral Region and one of the largest families in South ... in the genus Osmitopsis , all of which occur in the Western Cape. Osmitopsis asteriscoides (P.J.Bergius) Less. ...
Sparrmannia africana
PlantCape stock rose, wild stock rose, African hemp, Cape hollyhock (Eng.); Kaapse stokroos, wildestokroos (Afr.) ... strong wind, especially sustained strong wind like Cape Town's South-Easter. It needs protection from frost, ...
Protea scolymocephala
Plant... ideally suited to gardens on the sandy flats in and around Cape Town . It is an easy protea to grow, adapting to most ... to grow in large dense groups like they used to on the Cape Flats . It is an excellent low-maintenance plant for a water-wise garden in the Western Cape , particularly if you live on the sandy flats. ...
... Botswana), Hai om (northern Namibia ), Khomani (north western South Africa ), and the !Xun and Khwe (originally ... of H. gordonii in South Africa is only in the Northern Cape province . There are also reports of other sites in the Western Cape . Northern Cape Province : · H. gordonii , as ...
Caputia tomentosa
Plant... name Caput bonae spei was often applied not only to the Cape of Good Hope itself but to the Cape Province or the whole of South Africa. The generic name ... Herre, ex curator of the Stellenbosch University Garden (Western Cape), Caputia tomentosa ‘Hans Herre’ (Rowley ...
Athanasia crithmifolia
Plant... on flats and rocky slopes in Namaqualand, through the Western Cape to Port Elizabeth, in the Eastern Cape. Hymenolepis ... It grows on rocky sandstone slopes in Namaqualand and the western part of the Western Cape. In Kirstenbosh National ...