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>Search Results for 'Africa Flowers Guide'
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Sprawling Duneweed
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Habitat : An abundant coloniser of foredunes. Its stem, leaves and fruit are covered with turgid, swollen cells that give the plant a glistening appearance and may help reduce water loss...
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Sea Pumpkin
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Habitat : A common occupant of coastal foredunes which forms small hummocks. The hairs on its leaves are a means of reducing desiccation.
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Seeplakkie
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Habitat : Stabilises shifting sands with its extensive roots, building small hillocks. The thick waxy layer on its leaves reduces water loss.
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Hottentots Fig
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Carpobrotus sauerae. Habitat : A coastal creeper on rocky outcrops and dunes that are already partly stabilised. Actively pollinated by a range of insects....
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Goats Foot
Africa Flowers Guide Information: A sprawling creeper, long runners bear pairs of bilobed leaves (resembling a goat's cloven hoof). Flowers trumpet-shaped...
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Glasswort Samphire
Africa Flowers Guide Information: A sprawling perennial succulent. Stems jointed; no obvious leaves. Flowers tiny, arranged in threes at stem nodes. Size: 30 mm tall. Related Species: Sarcocornia littorea (Namaqualand - Agulhas)
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Estuarine Pondweed
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Estuarine Pondweed is Related to species: Ruppia cirrhosa: flower stalk coiled. Potamogeton pectinatus: flowers clustered on a spike.
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Soutbossie
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Habitat : Grows high on estuarine shores, in sandy areas that lie close to, or just above, the high-tide level.
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Blue Squill
Africa Flowers Guide Information: The tuft of leaves at the top of the bulb grows up to full size of 400 mm during summer. Many of these are tiny plants only a few inches high with small flower-spikes in mauves, greens or dark blue. The inflorescence can grow up to 600 mm in height. G ...
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Ground Morning Glory
Africa Flowers Guide Information: The leaves vary a great deal in shape. Flowering occurs during December and January. Flower size: ± 3,5 cm. ...
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Barberton Daisy
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Small daisy with a rosette of irregularly shaped leaves; often deeply divided. The flowers are actually flower heads made up of many, small, tightly clustered flowers or florets. The flowers may be red, pink, orange or yellow and appear from August th ...
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Day Waterlily
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Aquatic plant with round, floating leaves split by a V-notch. These plants have underground stems which are firmly anchored to the mud under water by means of rather thick, spreading roots. The rhizome (underground stem) is 4 - 5 cm in diameter, black ...
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Wild Foxglove
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Tall annual herb with erect stems. Leaves are opposite, are 3-lobed and toothed. Flowers are pale pink or white in colour, elongate and trumpet-shaped. ...
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Wild Dagga
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Sparse shrub with tall, 4-angled stems which are square in cross-section. The leaves are in pairs, may be narrow or broad and are toothed; they are often hairy. The flowers are carried in dense, spiky golfball-sized heads spaced up the stems supporti ...
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Wild Verbena
Africa Flowers Guide Information: This is quite a hairy plant that grows up to a height of 400 mm. It may be single- or multi-stemmed, with various leaves that mainly grow near the base of the plant. The beautiful ball-shaped inflorescence, which is about 30 mm in width, consists of ...
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Impala Lily
Africa Flowers Guide Information: It flowers mainly in July, but will also bloom as late as mid-September in places where it is cultivated. Flower size is about ± 5 cm across. ...
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Lucky Bean Creeper
Africa Flowers Guide Information: The pods of this slender vine split open to reveal attractive scarlet and black seeds which are known as Lucky beans. They cling to the plant for a long period, being conspicuous during winter. Pod size: ± 7 cm ...
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Monkeys Tail
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Wispy green leaves appear at the tips in spring. Flowers follow in early summer, about November. Flower size ± 5cm long...
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Pride of de Kaap
Africa Flowers Guide Information: They have characteristic two-lobed or winged leaves which have a width of 60 mm. The main flowering time is in March and April, but plants may already bloom from November. The colour of the flowers usually range from salmon to orange and yellow to whi ...
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Krantz Aloe
Africa Flowers Guide Information: A multi-stemmed aloe with thick, yellow-green leaves. The leaves are usually sharply toothed on the margins and are very juicy with a yellowish, slimy sap. The sap has been used to treat stomach ailments for many centuries. The leaves also store water ...
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