Plant Highlights By Date
Aloe vanbalenii
February 2024
South Africa has many species of Aloe that flower in winter, and one of these is Aloe vanbalenii, found in KwaZulu-Natal Province in the eastern part of the country.
Erica plukenetii
January 2024
About the genus The genus Erica is a large one, with well over 800 species. It lends its name to the family Ericaceae, which includes many well-known plants such as […]
Banksia heliantha
December 2023
Banksia is a genus in the Proteaceae (the Protea Family), and most of them are shrubs, like the Banksia heliantha.
Crassula rupestris
November 2023
Crassula rupestris is a clump-forming plant, found on rocky slopes and on cliffs. It grows widely in the southern and southwestern part of South Africa.
Aloe reitzii
October 2023
In habitat in South Africa, Aloe reitzii flowers in February and March, which is late summer to early autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.
Orbea variegata
September 2023
Stapeliads are well known for their remarkable five-pointed flowers, and these are often referred to as “carrion flowers” because many of them employ foul odors to attract the flies that pollinate them, including the Orbea variegata.
Cycas debaoensis
August 2023
Cycas debaoensis is a cone-bearing gymnosperm belonging to the order Cycadales, an ancient lineage whose ancestry extends back 300 million years, to a time when flowering plants had not yet evolved.
Agave pintilla
July 2023
The Agave pintilla is an unusual agave with compact rosettes of leaves with striking white markings on the leaf surfaces.
Echinocereus pentalophus subspecies pentalophus
June 2023
Plants in the Cactaceae, or Cactus Family, are almost all native to the Americas, and they occur widely in both North America and South America. This includes Echinocereus pentalophus subspecies pentalophus.
Gasteria rawlinsonii
May 2023
While many Gasteria are stemless, this is not true of a unique cliff-dwelling species named Gasteria rawlinsonii.
