
Greyia sutherlandii General Info – Summary This Tree with brittle branches may reach 10m high + a wide rounded crown. Simple, ovate to circular & deciduous Leaves are thin + many veins arising at the base. Showy red Flowers are in racemes. Each has 10 red protruding stamens. The 5-locular superior ovary has many ovules […]

General Info – summary This attractive plant is both drought and frost resistant. The unarmed shrub or small Tree is up 6m high. The simple, serrated and alternate Leaves are 3-veined from the base. The purple star-like 5-merous Flowers have discolorous sepals and many stamens with distinctly red filaments. Ovary is superior and has a lobed […]

Grewia hexamita General Info – Summary This deciduous Tree is up to 8m high & has smooth reddish brown/grey bark. Alternate, simple, serrated to entire Leaves: 3-veined from the asymmetric base. Yellow, bisexual, 5-merous, symmetrical and regular Flowers have large bi-coloured sepals & short yellow folded petals. The many male filaments are orange, and the […]

Grewia flavescens General Info – Summary This deciduous, often multi-stemmed shrub, may be a Tree up to 6m high, with 4-angled/grooved branches. Alternate, simple, variously shaped, light green Leaves with unevenly serrated margins are 3-veined from the base. Rough hairs are present. The yellow, bisexual, regular, 5-merous, stalked Flowers have many exserted stamens with yellow […]

Gardenia volkensii subsp. spatulifolia – currently upgrading! General Info – Summary This shrub/small deciduous Tree is up to 10m high with a vastly spreading crown. Blunt ending branchlets occur in whorls of 3. Obovate, decurrent Leaves at branch ends. Large, white, striking, short-lived single Flowers turn yellow & are Hawk Moth pollinated. Anthers are not exerted, […]

Gardenia thunbergia General Info – Summary This strikingly decorative unarmed Tree with branches in 3’s and smooth bark may reach 5+m high. The various shaped, soft and glossy Leaves are simple with decurrent bases. The creamy-white, sweet-scented, bisexual Flowers are large, regular and solitary. 8 stamens and a single pistil with an inferior ovary are […]