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Restio dispar
Plant... with the normal amount of water given in a garden. The plants have strong, upright stems and grow in a more or less tufted form with spreading rhizomes. When mature, the plants can reach a diameter of about 1 m at ground level ... grass-like plants now so fashionable in landscaping. It is useful for group plantings in large landscaping projects. The ...
Restio multiflorus
Plant... with the normal amount of water given in a garden. The plants have strong, upright stems and grow in a more or less tufted form. Like many other Restionaceae, the young plants produce finely branched juvenile stems which increase the photosynthesis process and enable the plants to grow faster. R. multiflorus plants have a large ...
Stapelia gigantea
Plant... on the inside, that give the bloom a pinkish appearance. Plants may flower throughout the year, depending on climatic ... insects for pollination (mainly flies – myophily). Plants are thus strictly entomophilous (strongly associated with insects). Plants occupy a wide diversity of habitats, mostly in arid ...
Orbea melanantha
Plant... the Pretoria National Botanical Garden in 2018, but before plants could even establish, they were all consumed by wild dassies . What was interesting is that close by plants of Stapelia gigantea were totally avoided and not browsed at all. The plants have complex flowers where male and female parts are ...
Restio similis
Plant... that grows up to 0.7 m high and 0.3 m in diameter. Plants produce stolons or rhizomatous roots and dark green ... At Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, the cultivated plants have also been seen flowering in midsummer, in January ... . All restio seedlings look different from the adult plants. In the first year, and second year for most species, ...
Elegia capensis
Plant... thick, divided into sections (internodes) like bamboo plants and can be up to 3 m tall. At each node there is a ... the growth of the plant and to an observant gardener, the plants produce an intriguing crackling noise as the sheaths dry out in the sun and the plants seem to whisper to the garden around them. When the ...
Elegia grandispicata
Plantnone known Kirstenbosch NBG Plants have an upright habit and grow to a maximum height of ... not have a spreading underground rhizome. The diameter of plants at this tufted base is between 0.1-0.4 m. Culms ... which means that male and female flowers occur on separate plants. Each culm has 1 inflorescence at its tip measuring ...
Adromischus diabolicus
Plant... obtuse, rounded to truncate and the base wedge-shaped. Plants only sparsely flowering, the inflorescence a ... is stored in the succulent stems, leaves and tubers. The plants have a slow, conservative growth and are long-lived ... dassie or rock rabbit ( Procavia capensis ) will graze the plants during periods of drought. Fig. 6. A cluster at ...
Thamnochortus acuminatus
Plant... in the wind. Restios are dioecious (female and male plants are borne on separate plants). They are wind-pollinated plants. The male and female plants in the natural habitat ...
Restio virgeus
Plant... m tall and 0.1–0.5 m wide at the crown. Cultivated plants in the garden were recorded at 0.8 m high. This ... roots. The stems (culms) round, curling on young plants, becoming slightly straighter in the third to fourth ... in the female spikelet and growth habit. Restio virgeus plants are killed by fire and regenerate by seed. However, ...