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Euclea natalensis

Plant
Common names: Natal guarri, Natal ebony, large-leaved guarri (Eng.); Natalghwarrie, berggwarrie, swartbasboom (Afr.); umTshekisani, umKhasa (Xhosa); iDungamuzi, iChitamuzi, umZimane, umTshikisane, inKunzane, inKunzi-emnyama, umHlalanyamazane, umAnyathi (Zulu); umHlangula (Tsonga)
Family: Ebenaceae

... It is suited to many different types of gardens, including windy coastal gardens, well-watered subtropical gardens as well as bushveld and woodland gardens. In an exposed, windy, coastal site it will form a low, rounded, bushy, ...

08/02/2010 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Phylica ericoides

Plant
Common names: heath phylica, ericoid phylica ( Eng. ); hardebos (Afr.)
Family: Rhamnaceae

... help the plant to survive and thrive in a dry, windy environment. Being small reduces the surface area from ... the plant can keep its stomata open, even during dry and windy weather, and continues to take in carbon dioxide for ...

16/04/2007 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Trachyandra falcata

Plant
Common names: Namaqua wild cabbage (Eng.); namakwakool, veldkool, bokkool (Afr.)
Family: Asphodelaceae

... to spring (October). Dormant during the long, dry, hot windy summers. The veldkool tubers sprout in autumn when the ... and Mediterranean type climates, as well as difficult, windy, seafront gardens. Best grown in an open, well aerated ...

27/05/2019 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Dregeochloa pumila

Plant
Common names: Tom Thumb grass, Kleinduimpiegras (Afr.)
Family: Poaceae

... moisture. Tom Thumb grass grows in full sun in very windy conditions. Its small stature (alpine growth), as with ...

02/02/2009 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Erica glandulosa subsp. fourcadei

Plant
Common names: Fourcade's heath
Family: Ericaceae

... Erica glandulosa subsp . fourcadei is found in exposed, windy and sunny positions on coastal hill slopes or on dune ...

26/08/2013 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Gazania splendidissima

Plant
Common names: None
Family: Asteraceae

... dune systems, receiving some salt spray during stormy and windy weather. They can be distinguished from the other ...

13/02/2012 | | Compton Herbarium

Lobostemon montanus

Plant
Common names: mountain lobostemon (Eng.); agtdaegeneesbos (Afr.)
Family: Boraginaceae

... of silvery leaves. Lobostemon montanus grows in harsh, windy, warm and dry habitats near the coast, surviving summer ...

15/08/2011 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Passerina filiformis subsp. filiformis

Plant
Common names: bakkerbos (Afr.)
Family: Thymelaeaceae

... flowering in spring and early summer, the most windy seasons in the Western Cape. The filiform (thin, ...

25/10/2004 | | National Herbarium Pretoria

Plants for windy, sandy gardens with alkaline soil

Information Library item
Author: Kirstenbosch NBG   |   Date: 2018
Source: Kirstenbosch NBG1   |   Copyright: SANBI

... list sandy alkaline strandveld cape flats SANBI Plants for windy, sandy gardens with alkaline soil ...

plant list, sandy, alkaline, strandveld, cape flats

Senecio elegans

Plant
Common names: wild cineraria, veld cineraria, greater purple ragwort, purple senecio (Eng.); strandblommetjie (Afr.); izuba (isiXhosa)
Family: Asteraceae

... and summer drought, they do well in disturbed, sandy and windy areas. The dry summers they in part survive as seed and ...

15/11/2022 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

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