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Curio repens
PlantFynbos Biome
Vegetation... for Fynbos Biome. The current concept of the Greater Cape Floristic Region includes the combination of Fynbos and ... Biome is considered by many to be synonymous with the Cape Floristic Region or Cape Floral Kingdom. However, the ... outliers of the Fynbos Biome such as the Kamiesberg, North-western and Escarpment Mountain Renosterveld (59,60) and ...
Ruschia promontorii
Plant... promontorii flowering on the coastal cliffs of Paulsberg, Cape Point Nature Reserve, in October 2010, and a close-up of ... . Ruschia promontorii trailing over a cliff at Paulsberg, Cape Point Nature Reserve. Note the numerous orange coloured ... it promontorii which refers to the Cape Peninsula in the Western Cape, in particular Cape Point, a promontory where ...
Anchusa capensis
PlantCape-forget-me-not, anchusa (Eng.); vergeetmynietjie, ... requirements are full sun and well-drained soil. In the western Cape, the plants grow during the wet winters and ... Eastern Cape, Free State, Northern Cape, North West and Western Cape Provinces, and in Lesotho. Anchusa azurea is an ...
... of tree. The specific epithet capensis means ‘from the Cape’, a region of South Africa. Today ‘Cape’ refers the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula, or more broadly to the provinces of Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape (formerly all ...
Adromischus leucophyllus
Plant... in flower on a crevice of a cliff near De Doorns, Western Cape. The Inflorescence consists of an erect spike-like ... inflorescence of Adromischus leucophyllus near De Doorns, Western Cape. Adromischus leucophyllus is well adapted to ...
Watsonia tabularis
Plant... with paler inner tepals. The plants in the southern Cape Peninsula have flowers that are uniformly orange, ... the mountains and coastal areas of the Northern Cape and Western Cape, through the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal to ... Most of them, 34 of the 52 species or 65%, occur in the Western Cape. Watsonia tabularis J.W.Mathews & L.Bolus ...
... is easily rubbed off onto bird pollinators such as the Cape Sugarbird. The green tree pincushion flowers from August ... plant for seaside gardens along the winter-rainfall western and southern Cape coasts, since it is resistant to ... 48 species, most of which grow in the fynbos of the south-western Cape. A number of species do however occur further ...
Gasteria camillae
Plant... habitat on a sheer cliff in the Baviaankloof, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Note the greyish green leaves and stems. ... which grows on deep vertical cliffs of the central and western Baviaanksloof Mountains. G. rawlinsonii has a ... in the collection on Babylonstoren Farm, Simondium, Western Cape. Gasteria camillae ...
Gethyllis afra
Plantkukumakranka, many-leaved Cape crocus (Eng.); bramakranka, koekoemakranka (Afr.). ... Khoi name used by the native Khoi people who inhabited the western part of southern Africa for centuries, koekoemakranka ... Botswana. It is concentrated in the Northern and Western Cape, occurring mostly on the Knersvlakte, Bokkeveld ...