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Erythrina abyssinica

Plant
Common names: red-hot-poker tree, lucky bean tree, Abyssinian coral tree, flame tree (Eng.), vuurpylkoraalboom (Afr.), umkhamba, umsinsi (isiZulu), umgqogqogqo (isiNdebele), umtholo, umgqwashu (isiXhosa), mudzwiri, mutzhiri (Tshivenda), mophethe (Sesotho).
Family: Fabaceae

... spectacular tree known for its bold appearance and vibrant flowers. It usually grows between 6 and 12 m tall and has a ... they become smooth and glossy. They appear soon after the flowers, and their fresh green colour contrasts beautifully with the tree’s dramatic flowers. In late winter, spring and early summer (June to ...

24/03/2025 | | KwaZulu-Natal NBG

Protea coronata

Plant
Common names: green protea, green sugarbush (Eng.); groenhofiesuikerbos (Afr.)
Family: Proteaceae

... a flower head or inflorescence, made up of many individual flowers grouped together on a rounded base or receptacle. ... Inside the cup of floral bracts are many long, narrow flowers massed together in the centre. Each flower is made up ... a dense fringe of silky white hairs along the margins. The flowers are 70-90 mm long, the tips of the perianth segments ...

15/09/2008 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Ledebouria humifusa

Plant
Common names: broad-leaved African hyacinth
Family: Hyacinthaceae

... Fig. 2. A new inflorescence emerging in early spring. Flowers are produced in spring and early summer (September to ... brownish and off-white to pinkish striped, nodding small flowers (florets) are presented on a green flower stalk. Each ... short pedicel (stalk). Typical of the section Resnova the flowers are unscented and the tepals spread apically creating ...

23/10/2023 | | Walter Sisulu NBG

Sparaxis grandiflora subsp. grandiflora

Plant
Common names: Cape buttercup, sparaxis (Eng.); botterblom, ferweel, ferweeltjie, fluweeltjie, perskalkoentjie, perskalossie (Afr.)
Family: Iridaceae

... the other subspecies and grow to approximately 250 mm. The flowers are regular, with the circular arrangement of six ... (cf. S. grandiflora subsp. violacea that has spathulate flowers with slightly pointed tips). The flowers are unscented and vary in colour from plum-red to ...

14/08/2006 | | CREW

Wachendorfia thyrsiflora

Plant
Common names: marsh butterfly lily, bloodroot, redroot (Eng.); rooikanol (Afr.)
Family: Haemodoraceae

... is a dense cylindrical panicle of bright golden-yellow flowers on a tall sturdy stalk. Flowers are produced from spring until mid-summer (September ... biology is a bit of an evolutionary puzzle. The flowers produce a generous amount of nectar which is easily ...

10/12/2001 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

Pseudogaltonia clavata

Plant
Common names: desert coconut, desert hyacinth, osonanga lily, Namibian slangkop, Cape hyacinth, (Eng.); gifbol, groenlelie, slangkop, Namibia-slangkop (Afr.)
Family: Hyacinthaceae

... rounded and smooth, about 240 mm long, bearing numerous flowers arranged in a raceme. Small, narrow, pointed bracts ... of each flower stalk that measures 22–27 mm long. The flowers are initially club-shaped in bud, becoming slightly ... Pseudogaltonia clavata inflorescence and a close-up of the flowers, of a cultivated plant in Kirstenbosch National ...

09/12/2024 | | National Herbarium Pretoria

Hypoxis hemerocallidea

Plant
Common names: star flower, yellow star (Eng.); sterblom, geelsterretjie, gifbol (Afr.); moli kharatsa, lotsane (S Sotho); inkomfe, inkomfe enkulu (Zulu), inongwe, ilabatheka, ixhalanxa, ikhubalo lezithunzela (Xhosa), tshuka (Tsw.). Wrongly called African potato.
Family: Hypoxidaceae

... perennial with straplike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers. The leaves are up to 400 mm long, neatly arranged ... hairs. Leaves appear above ground in spring before the flowers. The flowers are carried on 5 or 6 slender erect inflorescences, ...

09/11/2009 | | National Herbarium Pretoria

Leonotis ocymifolia

Plant
Common names: rock lion's paw, minaret flower (Eng.); klipdagga, wildedagga (Afr.)
Family: Lamiaceae

... to finely hairy, whereas the lower surface is silvery. The flowers, which appear in spring in the Overberg and flower ... whorls and look very similar to the well-known L. leonurus flowers. The klipdagga is pollinated by bees and a number of ... National Botanical Garden. These birds that pollinate the flowers have long curved beaks that fit into the flowers ...

14/12/2020 | | Harold Porter NBG

Erica retorta

Plant
Common names: hair-leaf bottle heath, bottle heath (Eng.), bottelheide, flessieheide (Afr.)
Family: Ericaceae

... in a long bristle at the tip of each leaf and bract. The flowers are in umbels of up to 8 flowers, on a long stalk. Both the corolla and sepals are sticky. Flowers are tubular to ampullaceous (swelling out like a ...

01/08/2022 | | Harold Porter NBG

Melianthus major

Plant
Common names: honey flower, melianthus, giant honey flower, touch-me-not (Eng.); kruidjie-roer-my-nie, heuningblom, klappers, krikkiebos (Afr.); ubuhlungubemamba, ubutyayi (Xhosa), ibonya (Zulu)
Family: Melianthaceae

... flower spikes are racemes made up of many dark maroon flowers. On closer inspection, one can see a dark black ... nectary produces copious quantities of black nectar. The flowers resupinate when mature, which means that they turn ... down, with the sepal that encloses the nectary on top. The flowers are followed by pale green, 4-chambered, bladder-like ...

19/06/2017 | | Kirstenbosch NBG

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