South African Indigenous Plant Catalogue

Acacia ataxacanthaIn Stock

Acacia ataxacantha (=Senegalia ataxacantha) is a hardy, deciduous Acacia that can grow as a scrambling shrub or medium sized tree with many hooked prickles. It is drought resistant and fairly fast-growing. The fine leaves are either bright...

Acacia brevispicaIn Stock

Acacia brevispica (=Senegalia brevispica) is a hardy, semi-deciduous, robust, prickly, scrambling Acacia that can be trained into a large beautiful shrub. It has feathery, large, soft, bipinnate leaves with small hook thorns along the rib...

Acacia davyiIn Stock

Acacia davyi (=Vachellia davyi) is a hardy, drought resistant, deciduous, small Acacia with distinctive yellow or light brown, corky bark on the stems and branches. It has clusters of bright yellow puffball flowers on the ends of the ...

Acacia hebecladaIn Stock

Acacia hebeclada (Vachellia hebeclada)is a hardy, small to medium-sized, spreading, deciduous tree or large shrub with paired, sharp spines. The dark brown to grey bark is fissured and flaking. Birds, such as the Red-billed Wood Hoopoe, enj...

Acacia hereroensisIn Stock

Acacia hereroensis (Senegalia hereroensis) is a deciduous shrub or small tree with ascending branches that have dark, smoothish to rough bark, sometimes flaking away in large, thick pieces. The branchlets are densely velvety. It has a somew...

Acacia luederitziiIn Stock

Acacia luederitzii var. luederitzii is a very hardy, deciduous, quite slow-growing Acacia that can tolerate harsh conditions as it grows in desert and semi-desert areas. It develops a flat crown, typical of African Acacias, with age. It has...

Acacia schweinfurthiiIn Stock

A shrub or small spreading tree, but most frequently a robust scrambler with hooked thorns scattered along the branches. The compound leaves have bright green leaflets.   The white or pale cream balls of flowers are borne from Decembe...

Acokanthera oppositifolia

Acokanthera oppositifolia ia a hardy, evergreen, drought-resistant, medium to large upright, woody, shrub with brown, deeply fissured bark on the old wood. The attractive, hard, dark-green, purple or red-tinged leaves have a sharply-pointe...

Acokanthera rotundataIn Stock

Shrub or small evergreen tree with short, crooked, grooved and is multi-stemmed. The twigs are angled and ribbed. Latex white. The bark is greyish brown and rather rough. The leaves are broadly elliptic to almost circular, stiff and leathe...

Aeollanthus parvifolius

This evergreen, drought tolerant, multi-stemmed, perennial, succulent shrublet is long-lived, fast-growing and light frost resistant. The leaves are broad oval to roundish.   The two-lipped, white to light pink, tubular flowers&n...