South African Indigenous Plant Catalogue

Aloe cooperi is a very hardy, stemless Aloe with long, narrow, yellow-green leaves arranged in a fan shape and distinctively keeled with white spots beneath. It has spikes of apricot or yellow coloured, tubular flowers from December to March. The flowers attract nectar feeding birds such as Sunbirds...
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Aponogeton distachyos is a fast growing aquatic herb with glossy oblong leaves that float on the waters surface.  Sweetly scented, edible flowers stand up out of the water above the leaves, attracting attention. The flower is interesting in that it is a forked inflorescence bearing tiny, whit...
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Aristea ecklonii is hardy, evergreen, clump-forming, perennial bulbous plant with narrow, strap-like, slightly pleated leaves that are carried in a fan. It bears flowering stems of amazing pale to deep mauve-blue flowers from August to March. There is a white flowered form grown at Random Harvest nu...
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Berula erecta is a hardy, evergreen plant, easy to grow in marshy areas. It has attractive, bright-green, upright, fern-like foliage. It flowers from December to March and it bears heads of many delicate, white flowers that are approximately 60 to 80mm in diameter that make good cut flowers. The fl...
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Crinum bulbispermum ‘White’ is a very hardy, deciduous, bulbous plant with robust, grey-green leaves that can grow up to 800mm long. It bears long-stemmed umbels of large, showy, lily-like, fragrant, pure-white flowers throughout spring and summer.Unlike the pink form, they flower mul...
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Cyperus alternifolius subsp. is a hardy, evergreen, medium-sized sedge that forms large clumps.Long, green stems are topped with a circle of flat green bracts. The clusters of brown flowers stand out above the green bracts in summer.Attracts many birds such as Weavers, Waders and other water bird...
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Cyperus albostriatus is a hardy, evergreen sedge with its tuft of basal leaves. The bare stem carries a terminal umbrella of what look like bright-green, grass-like leaves with a faint white stripe. These are actually bracts from which the flowers are borne. A spray of delicate green flowers that t...
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Cyperus papyrus is a hardy, evergreen sedge. It is the largest sedge in Africa.It forms clumps of tall, green, bare stems, topped by heads of grass-like flower spikelets, giving it a mop-like appearance.  Attracts many birds such as weavers, waders and water birds.A wonderful form plant that is...
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Cyperus prolifer is a hardy, evergreen, small sedge. Each green stem is topped by a cluster of grass-like flower spikelets. These very decorative stems can be used in flower arrangements. An attractive little plant that is ideal for planting in a small pond or wet area. Helps to filter and keep...
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Cyperus textilis is a hardy, evergreen, tall sedge that forms clumps of bare, green stems topped with upright, flat, narrow, spiky bracts that radiate out like the ribs of an umbrella. Delicate, inconspicuous, green flowers are carried above the bracts in late summer.Attracts many birds such as Weav...
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