Description: Willowy shrub or tree to 8 m. Leaves sessile, discolorous, lanceolate, margins crenate, base auriculate. Flowers in terminal paniculate cymes, tubular with anthers included, white to purple with orange throat.
Description: Low sprawling shrub with sage like leaves. Might have been confused with B.loricata but that species has only one colour form. Wide spread at RNP and KZN midlands. Boon:490
Description: Willowy shrub or tree to 8 m. Leaves sessile, discolorous, lanceolate, margins crenate, base auriculate. Flowers in terminal paniculate cymes, tubular with anthers included, white to purple with orange throat.
Description: Willowy shrub or tree to 8 m. Leaves sessile, discolorous, lanceolate, margins crenate, base auriculate. Flowers in terminal paniculate cymes, tubular with anthers included, white to purple with orange throat.
Description: Willowy shrub or tree to 8 m. Leaves sessile, discolorous, lanceolate, margins crenate, base auriculate. Flowers in terminal paniculate cymes, tubular with anthers included, white to purple with orange throat. This was growing on the side of the railway line in a mixture of Fynbos/afro-temperate forest. The leaves were distinctly deformed. We think this must be because of the diesel fumes from the Power Van which goes up there several times a day. Comments?
Description: Shrub or tree to 7 m. Leaves petiolate, discolorous, lanceolate. Flowers in velvety paniculate cymes, cup-shaped with anthers exserted, cream with orange throat. This grows on the fringe of the afro-temperate forest on Strawberry Hill
Description: Shrubs up to about 4m, with pale yellow inflorescences and blue-grey leaves. Any ideas on the ID of the pollinators? (I will post them separately)
Description: Willowy shrub or tree to 8 m. Leaves sessile, discolorous, lanceolate, margins crenate, base auriculate. Flowers in terminal paniculate cymes, tubular with anthers included, white to purple with orange throat.
Description: Tree about 3m tall. Grey-green leaves are scalloped around the margins and woolly-white underneath. Veins very prominent on under side. Flowers are sweet scented in terminal sprays.
Description: Willowy shrub or tree to 8 m. Leaves sessile, discolorous, lanceolate, margins crenate, base auriculate. Flowers in terminal paniculate cymes, tubular with anthers included, white to purple with orange throat. For whatever reason, I had difficulty separating Tarchonanthus and Buddleja salviifolia in the field. Tarchonanthus littoralis has alternate leaves and the Buddleja's leaves are opposite.
