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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. ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
Roosia lucilleae
Plant... does not readily flower. However, in cooler regions of the Western Cape and similar climate elsewhere in fynbos, they will ... from the Klein Karoo to the Baviaanskloof in the Eastern Cape. However, here the resemblance ends, as L. affinis has ...
Gladiolus aureus
Plant... 1894 by the naturalist Mr C.B. Fair, in the southern Cape Peninsula, and was described by the Kew botanist J.G. ... botanist, Miriam de Vos, in 1976. Endemic to the southern Cape Peninsula, G. aureus has historically always been ... at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, and at the then Cape Department of Nature Conservation at Assegaaibosch, near ...
... waterwise garden plant. It is well suited for coastal and Cape flats conditions, as well as cold highveld gardens and ... mm long. This variety occurs from about Knysna in the Western Cape, all along the coast to the Eastern Cape, ... mm long. This plant occurs only in the eastern part of the Western Cape and the western part of the Eastern Cape, along ...
Mimetes fimbriifolius
Plant... 1000 mm per annum in the central and northern areas of the Cape Peninsula. At Cape Point it receives considerably less ... 4–10°C to 15–20°C, typical of autumn in the Western Cape. Germination can be induced if the seeds are ... on slopes and in gardens along the Peninsula or the western Cape coast. Provide protection from excessive heat by ...
Veltheimia capensis
Plant... the journal of Simon van der Stel, Dutch Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. The journal illustrated his expedition to ... plant had been found west of Bitterfontein, on the north-western coast of the Western Cape. The genus Veltheimia honours the German ...
Anginon difforme
Plant... to the extremely dry weather (summer aridity) of south-western South Africa. Apiaceae flowers are small but are ... in a sunny location, because most species seeds in the Cape Floristic Region require sunlight to germinate. Within 2 ... A. rugosum . This genus of 12 species occurs in south-western southern Africa in the Eastern, Western, and Northern ...