South African Indigenous Plant Catalogue

Lachenalia hybrids belong to a group of small, fairly hardy, hyacinth-like, deciduous bulbous plants. In winter they produce attractive, strap-shaped, bright green leaves that are sometimes dotted with deep purple markings. Between May and October, a spike of tubular to bell-shaped flowers arises f...
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Lampranthus aureus ‘Orange' is an extremely hardy, evergreen, succulent, spreading shrublet.It has an attractive, neat shape and masses of small grey-green, succulent, finger-like leaves. From about August, all the way through spring, this Vygie puts on a show of magnificent, vibrant-orange...
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Lampranthus aureus "Yellow" is an extremely hardy, evergreen, succulent, spreading shrublet. It has an attractive, neat shape and masses of small, grey-green, succulent, finger-like leaves. From about Aug., all the way through spring, this Vygie puts on a show of magnificent, bright, golden-yellow ...
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Lampranthus spectabilis is a hardy, evergreen, fast-growing, drought-resistant, succulent plant that forms a dense, trailing carpet of finger-like, succulent, grey-green leaves. It bears glistening, pink to purple flowers that will light up a sunny corner of the garden.They bloom in early spring an...
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Lantana rugosa is a hardy, evergreen, much branched perennial shrub with rough stems and leaves.The leaves are small (the drier the conditions, the smaller the leaves), bright green and aromatic when crushed. Little clusters of pinky purple flowers are borne from September to May, and are followed b...
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Lapeirousia sandersonii is a very hardy deciduous bulbous plant with narrow pleated leaves. It bears branched stems of spectacular mauve flowers with dark purple streaks in delicate, many flowered heads that are borne from November to March. They attract tiny insects to the garden. This beautiful ...
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Leonotis leonurus is a very hardy, drought and frost resistant, evergreen perennial shrub. This well-loved, decorative shrub has masses of showy, compact clusters of orange or white, velvety flowers repeated in circles up the length of every long stalk from February. to July.  An important food...
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Leonotis cf. leonurus ‘Simba’ is a hardy, evergreen drought- and frost-resistant, evergreen, perennial shrub that looks just like ordinary Leonotis leonurus, but the height remains about 60 cm. The beautiful, velvety, tawny, yellow-orange flowers are repeated in circles up the length of...
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Leucosidea sericea is a decorative, very hardy, evergreen, fast growing, low branching small, tree with aromatic leaves that have silvery hairs. The yellowish-green flowers that are borne from August to December are sticky with nectar and held in candle-like spikes. The flowers attract many insects ...
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Linum africanum is a hardy, small, evergreen, compact, drought resistant, bushy shrublet with attractive, grey-green leaves. It bears masses of pretty, shiny, yellow flowers that are often flushed with red on the underside from October to April.   Plant in either full sun or semi-shade in well-...
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