You remember that plant as somewhere in this blog ... If you know the name, you can use the search box at the top of this blog.
The very briefest description - to help you find that elusive plant again - is listed on my new False Bay blog.
The very briefest description - to help you find that elusive plant again - is listed on my new False Bay blog.
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First Exotic plants. That is NOT South African, but mostly common-or-garden. Roses. We have about 20.
Invasive Alien - SEEK AND DESTROY - Paterson's Curse pretty flower? NO!! Echium plantagineum. Purple Viper's Bugloss
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SOUTH AFRICAN plants
Some from the mediterranean climate fynbos region. Fynbos is the South African version of what California calls chaparral, The Mediterranean basin calls maquis or garrigue, Australia calls kwongan (Eucalyptus, Melaleuca, Acacia, Banksia and Hakea), and Chile calls matorral.
Groundcover - Arctotis candida. Wild annual daisy harvester-ants-and-malmesbury-gousblom
Errr " Australia calls mallee scrub"
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William - help me out and I'll edit it. I am simply quoting what I read. What would Australians call the vegetation that grows in a mediterranean climate, like our fynbos?
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