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Cineraria saxifraga DC.

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Common names: wild cineraria; geelblom

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Osteospermum moniliferum L. (=Chrysanthemoides monilifera (L.) T.Norl.)

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Common names: bietou, boneseed, tickberry, brother berry, bush-tickberry (Eng.) bietou, boetabessie, bosluisbessie, bokbessie, weskusbietou, skilpadkos (Afr.), inkupheyana, itholonja (Zulu), motlempe, ntloyalekxwaba (South Sotho)

SA Tree No: 736

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Carpobrotus edulis (L.) L.Bolus

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Common names: sour fig, Cape fig, Hottentots fig (Eng.); ghaukum, ghoenavy, Hottentotsvy, Kaapsevy, perdevy, rankvy, suurvy, vyerank, (Afr.); ikhambi-lamabulawo, umgongozi (Zulu)

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C. acinaciformis (sour fig, elandsvy, goenavy, Hotnotsvy, strandvy, suurvy ) has purple flowers, robust, short, greyish green, sabre-shaped leaves and tasty edible fruits, used to make a delicious jam, and grows in coastal sands usually close to the sea, in the Western Cape, from Saldanha to Mossel Bay.

C.deliciosus

C. deliciosus (sour fig, perdevy, ghaukum, ghounavy ) has purple, pink or white flowers, almost straight, reddish green leaves and sweet fruits that make excellent sour fig preserve. It grows on sand dunes and in rocky grassland along the southern and eastern coast of South Africa from Riversdale in the Western Cape through the Eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal.

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C. dimidiatus ( Natal dune vygie, Natalse-kusvy, strandvygie, ikhambi-lamabulawo, umgongozi ) has rose-purple flowers and grows on dunes in the Eastern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique.

C. mellei (mountain sour fig, berg-rankvy, berg-suurvy ) is the only species that occurs in the fynbos on sandstone mountain slopes inland, it is found only in the Western Cape in the Hottentots Holland Mountains, the Langeberg and the Swartberg. It has pink or purple flowers, narrow small leaves and a small club-shaped fruit.

C. muirii (dwarf sour fig, dwergsuurvy ) is similar to C. deliciosus but has narrower leaves and is only found only in the Strandveld in the Western Cape, from De Hoop to Stillbaai.

C. quadrifidus (including C. sauerae), (West Coast sour fig, Weskus suurvy, elandsvy) has large violet-pink, pale pink or white flowers-the largest flower found in the family Mesembryanthemaceae-and straight, stubby grey leaves and grows in sandy lowlands along the west coast from southern Namaqualand in the Northern Cape to Saldanha in the Western Cape.

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Bulbine latifolia (L.f.) Spreng. (= Bulbine natalensis Baker)

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Common names: broad-leaved bulbine (Eng.); rooiwortel, geelkopieva (Afr.); incelwane (isiXhosa), ibhucu (isiZulu)

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Barleria repens Nees

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Common names: small bush violet (Eng.); kleinbosviooltjie (Afr.), inzinziniba (Zulu)

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Baphia racemosa (Hochst.) Baker

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Common names: violet pea, Natal camwood (Eng.); boskamhout (Afr.); uTshuphu (isiXhosa); isiFithi (isiZulu)

SA Tree No: 224

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Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh. var. marina

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Common names: white mangrove (Eng.); witseebasboom (Afr.); mangal, towozi, txomahati (Xironga); isikhungathi (isiXhosa, isiZulu) - these from Van Wyk et al. (2011); Gomes e Sousa (1967) gives nhamesso (Xironga) and mussu (Quimuane) for Mozambique. The Kiswahili name Uchu (coastal Kenyan) and Mtswi (Giriyama) are recorded on herbarium specimens, as are many other vernacular names within its vast range.

SA Tree No: 669

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Arctotis acaulis L.

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Common names: renoster arctotis, renoster marigold (Eng.), renostergousblom, tonteldoekblom (Afr.)

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Arctotheca populifolia (Bergius) Norlindh

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Common names: beach pumpkin (Eng.); seepampoen, tonteldoek (blom), strandgousblom (Afr.)

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Antithrixia flavicoma DC.

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Common names: None known

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