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
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.
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.
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.
Africa Flowers Guide Information: A sprawling creeper, long runners bear pairs of bilobed leaves (resembling a goat's cloven hoof). Flowers trumpet-shaped
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
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Estuarine Pondweed is Related to species: Ruppia cirrhosa: flower stalk coiled. Potamogeton pectinatus: flowers clustered on a spike.
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Description of Cape Eelgrass, Creeping roots. Leaves narrow, flat; tips rounded, faintly notched. Blades 10 - 30 cm, 1 mm wide. Related species is
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Oval-leafed Saltweed is found on the lower parts of waterlogged intertidal sandbanks in estuaries, particularly where the water is brackish
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Dune Slack Rush dominates saltmarshes where salinities are low; often extends into dune slacks bordering saltmarshes. One of several species
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
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
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
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.
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Devils Thorn is a small annual herb with trailing stems. Leaves are opposite and toothed; flowers are pink-mauve in colour and trumpet-shaped
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
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
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.
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
Africa Flowers Guide Information: Wispy green leaves appear at the tips in spring. Flowers follow in early summer, about November. Flower size ± 5cm long
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
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
