South African Indigenous Plant Catalogue

Rapanea melanophloeosIn Stock

Rapanea melanophloes is a hardy, small to medium sized, evergreen tree with dark leaves that have a purplish cast to them. It also has really attractive bark. The small greenish-white flowers from May to July attract insects and bees. Thes...

Raphionacme velutinaIn Stock

Raphionacme velutina is a very hardy, deciduous, multi-stemmed herbaceous plant with weakly-erect stems arising from a large, tuberous caudex, which is sometimes flattened. The small, elongated, hairy, grey-green leaves are folded upwards i...

Rauvolfia caffraIn Stock

Rauvolfia caffra is a hardy, evergreen to briefly deciduous, upright tree with beautiful large, glossy drooping, lanceolate leaves. The trumpet-shaped, small, white flowers are carried in clusters at the end of the branches from May to Octo...

Rhamnus prinoidesIn Stock

Rhamnus prinoides is a very hardy, evergreen, very fast growing, large shrub with beautiful glossy almost mirror-like leaves. The small inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers are borne all year round and attract insects.  The black...

Rhigozum obovatumIn Stock

Rhigozum obovatum is a very hardy, semi-deciduous, drought-resistant, twiggy, spiny shrub with small blue-green leaves. It bears brilliant, golden, trumpet-shaped flowers in spring or early summer, especially after rain. Depending on the ra...

Rhoicissus digitataIn Stock

Rhoicissus digitata is a hardy, evergreen, robust, woody climber that has attractive foliage. The three or five-partite glossy leaves have russet colored new growth and tendrils for climbing. It can climb up to 10 meters or more or make a m...

Rhoicissus sekhukhuniensis

Rhoicissus sekhukhuniensis is a rare, recently discovered plant is endemic to Sekhukhuneland (it is the only area in the world it is found).It is a hardy and fairly slow growing scrambling shrub or climber. Its most exceptional feature is t...

Rhoicissus tomentosaIn Stock

Rhoicissus tomentose is a hardy, evergreen, robust, woody climber with rough, greyish-brown bark. The ornamental, almost circular to kidney-shaped, dark-green leaves are interspersed with velvety tendrils.  The young leaves are hairy a...

Rhoicissus tridentataIn Stock

Rhoicissus tridentata is a very hardy, deciduous, fast-growing, drought-resistant, vigorous climber or scrambling shrub with attractive, dark-green foliage that turns red in autumn. The small, greenish-yellow flowers are borne in tight clus...

Rotheca myricoidesIn Stock

Rotheca myricoides (= Clerodendrum myricoides) is a fairly hardy, medium sized, evergreen, very decorative shrub with beautiful foliage.  It has massed spikes of purple flowers in spring and summer which attract the beautiful Carpente...