Description: Small tree to 20 m. Leaves pinnate, leaflets finely hairy beneath, oblong, obtuse to acute. Flowers in axillary racemes, pale pink or white with pale pink, yellowish-green or dark purple keel tip; bracts large, persistent until buds 10 mm long.
Description: A small tree, with leaves oppositely arranged. Inflorescences of pink flowers. Flowers look bisexual, in whorls of six, having 12 stamens and 6 petals, 2 free and 2 x 2 fused. Found near Newlands Forest Reservoir in Table Mountain National Park.
Description: Has been identified by others as Virgilia oroboides. This species was noted as being present in the Reserve by Brian Rycroft in 1979. However, could this specimen be Virgilia divaricata?
Description: Keurboom. But which one: * the indigenous species? Western Pink Keurboom * the alien subspecies? Eastern Pink Keurboom * the alien species? Garden Route Keurboom
Description: The Keurboom species are a problem in that most people ignore the variation and plant them anywhere. This appears to be the indigenous form to Orangekloof although the flowers are large. The Western Keurboom (oroboides), which is indigenous to the Peninsula, has large brown bracts that persist until the pale pink flowers open, and hairy leaves. The Eastern Keurboom (divaricata) has small bracts that drop off long before the dark purple flowers open, and leaves only lightly hairy below with a more rounded tip. There is an eastern form of oroboides (subsp.
