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Afrikaans: Wildemalva
This highly ornamental shrub has large, showy flowers that are a rich butter-yellow, and the foliage is velvety, the leaves being heart-shaped. The seed pods are also ornamental. A showy plant that creates a lush, tropical effect. It is found in nature along forest margins and in disturbed bush areas.
Location: Forest margins and bush, especially disturbed places. Bredasdorp and little Karoo to Zimbabwe.
English: Monkey Thorn
A popular Acacia with rough, corky bark. This is a common choice as a bonsai specimen, but is best used as a large tree in the garden. The flowers are creamy-yellow and sweetly scented. Thorn trees are also a favorite choice as nesting sites for birds. A relatively fast-growing and cold hardy tree.
Location: Gauteng, NW Province, Botswana, Limpopo, Mphumalanga
Afrikaans: Soetdoring
English: Sweet Thorn
A beautiful sight in full flower with bright yellow balls covering the whole tree. Widespread from dunes to grassland, variable shape but easily pruned by removing the lower branches to form an attractive flattened crown. Feed and water regularly in the growing season.
Location: Widespread in S. A.often on alluvial plains and near water.
Afrikaans: Papierbasdoring
English: Paperbark Thorn
Large deciduous tree occuring in woodland and wooded grassland. Attractive corky bark and a handsome growth habit are the main attractions. Fragrant white or cream ball shaped flowers are carried from September to November. Suitable for bonsai.
Location: Mpumalanga, KZN, Limpopo, Swaziland, Gauteng
Afrikaans: Koorsboom
English: Fever Tree
Graceful and fast growing with smooth yellow-green trunk and branches being its most striking feature. Flowers are sweetly scented fluffy yellow balls. Sparse rounded crown of light green foliage with long white thorns. Grows near rivers and swamps. Prune off lower branches to form single stemmed tree. Mulch thickly with good compost, water regularly and feed with high nitrogen organic or chemical fertilizer to boost growth.
Location: KZN, Limpopo, Mphumalanga, Swaziland
Compact, rounded shrub with needle like leaves and a myriad of tiny pink star-like flowers in autumn and spring, very similar to Coleonema but more compact and floriferous. Does well in a sunny position and responds to regular watering and light feeding with slow release 3:1:5 or organic fertiliser. Excellent for coastal gardens.
Location: Knysna to Keurbooms River and Eastern Cape
English: Buchu
Low growing ornamental buchu with aromatic leaves and striking star-shaped pink flowers most of the year, but especially in winter. Plant in groups or as edging for best effect. Excellent coastal plant. Prune when necessary. Responds well to applications of 3:1:5 slow release or compost 2-3 times yearly.
Location: Mossel Bay, Pinnacle Point form. Coastal limestone fynbos
A very rewarding aromatic ornamental buchu, although natural habitat is limestone, it thrives well in a normal garden situation. Leaves are soft grey and stems are topped with 3 - 4 showy open pink flowers making it a wonderfull mixed border or container plant contrasting well with larger and green leaved shrubs and Restios. Plant in well drained full sun position, water well initially to settle, prune lightly to shape and feed with organic fertiliser or 3:1:5 especially before flowering.
Location: Limestone hills on the Agulhas Plain