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Scientific name - Bulbine frutescens Popular names - kopieva balm, Copa, geelkatstert, snake flower, cat's tail. Distribution and Habitat - originated in southern Africa. Description - Juicy perennial species, rizomatoasa. Leaves basal, linear, cylindrical, fleshy, 10-15 cm long. Floral stem is 45 cm long. Blossom flowers made up of 40-50 cm, arranged in Raceme 15-30 cm long. Flowers yellow-orange, 6-15 mm in diameter, lilac fluffy. Blooms in April-May. Fruit black cap. Requirements - grows well on land well drained, in full sun. Tolerate drought well. It needs occasional cuts after passage of flowers, inflorescences removal. Management - Autumn and winter reduce watering. Mulcirea protect plants from frost plantet. Propagation - by seeds, division bushes, spring. When the new plants have four leaves and roots well formed, then can be transplanted. Natural partners and garden - Acacia sp., Cercidium sp., Prosopis sp., Carissa macrocarpa, Aptenia cordifolia, Agapanthhus sp., Dymondia margaretae,Gazania sp., Dietes sp.. Properties and Uses - juice extracted from Bulbine frutescens is used as the basis for body creams to treat eczema. Balsamic properties, bacterial, healing. It associates well with other succulents in a Rocar. Can be used as plant along alleys, as plant pots. References Bob Hyland - Designing for Sun and Shade - Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2006 Kirsten Albrecht Llamas - Tropical Flowering Plants - Timber Press, 2003 Margaret Roberts - Margaret Robert's AZ Herbs - Struik Publishers, 2003 Marie Harrison - Groundcovers for the South - Pineapple Press2006
See also
 Cactus and succulent plants
Corryocactus quadrangularis F. Ritter 1958
Corryocactus is a genus of cacti native of western South America, with strong columnare strains. Flowers are bell shaped. Fruit large overall, with thorns, edible. Hatiora gaertneri
Hatiora gaertneri pendence is a shrub, very branched. Originally from southeastern Brazil, which grows at altitudes of 350-1300 m. The stem is segmented, each segment is about 5 cm, with small notches on the edges, green mat. Is devoid of thorns, or are very small. Kalanchoe eriophylla
Kalanchoe eriophylla - was first described by R. Hilsenbeck and W. Bojer, in 1857. Originally from Madagascar, which grows at high altitudes, on rocks. Kalanchoe eriophylla - epiphytic species, herbaceous perennial, 30 cm height. Decumbenta strain or swing. Leaves opposite, Sesia, in rosettes at the base, language juicy, sub-ovoid, 10-35 x 6-17 mm, pubescent, base truncata or amplexicaule, top obtuse, margin entire or crenata. Aptenia cordifolia Schwantes
Aptenia cordifolia - Prostate species, evergreen, native to southern Africa. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovat-cord, edge entire, 1-3 cm long. Flowers solitary, terminal or axillary, short pedunculate, 1 cm diameter, 4 sepa unequal petals united at the base, pink to purple, stamens numerous. Blooms in April-August. Fruit capsule, obconica, 4 valves, 1 cm long. Agapanthus species. Cultivation and maintenance
Popular name for Agapanthus: English - Lily of the Nile, Africa - agape, Zulu - ubani. Agapanthus has been described for the first time in 1679 and was named by L'Heritier in 1788. The name derives from the Greek 'agape' - love and 'anthis' - relating to flower House Plant
Begonia
Plants with succulent stems, leaves and flowers unisexuate asymmetric, long pedunculate, grouped dichaziu terminal. ♂ flowers usually are obsolete, consisting of 4 petals oval, two of which are shorter, the ♀ consist of 4 petals equal, persistent. Agapanthus species. Cultivation and maintenance
Popular name for Agapanthus: English - Lily of the Nile, Africa - agape, Zulu - ubani. Agapanthus has been described for the first time in 1679 and was named by L'Heritier in 1788. The name derives from the Greek 'agape' - love and 'anthis' - relating to flower Aptenia cordifolia Schwantes
Aptenia cordifolia - Prostate species, evergreen, native to southern Africa. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovat-cord, edge entire, 1-3 cm long. Flowers solitary, terminal or axillary, short pedunculate, 1 cm diameter, 4 sepa unequal petals united at the base, pink to purple, stamens numerous. Blooms in April-August. Fruit capsule, obconica, 4 valves, 1 cm long. Flowers
Delphinium ajacis
Ajacis delphinium - annual species, native to southern Europe, cultivated in different forms as ornamental horticulture. Stachys Byzantine
Stachys Byzantine - perennial species, native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, grows on dry slopes at the edge of forests, up to 2000 m altitude. Rhaponticum scariosum
Rhaponticum scariosum - Alpine endemic species, grows on mountain pastures from 750 to 2500 m altitude. Brachyscome multifida
Brachyscome multifida - herbaceous perennial, rizomatoasa, native to temperate regions of southern Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Aquilegia fragrans - fragrant caldarea
Herbaceous perennial. Roots thin. Stem 30-100 cm tall, branched, slightly pubescent on the underside, becoming glandular-pubescent in the upper. Basal leaves bi or tri-Ternate, glauca, lobes 2-3-lobate, 1.5-4 x 1.5-4 cm, base cuneata, obovata, glabra green glauca and upper face, and pale green inside pubescent, hairy stalks. Liliopsida
Saccharum officinarum - Sugar cane
Herbaceous perennial strain neramificata, 3-4 m high, 3-5 cm diameter. Roots of two ways, first type is formed from Butas after planting, are thin and bends, the second type of primary shoots grow roots flashy and less branched, with all the old roots are brown and dry. Alstroemeria
Herbaceous perennial. Rhizome long, soft, or short and nodosa. Stem 1 m tall, sterile stems short. Leaves alternate, short stalks, lamina linear - ovata, margins entire, nervatiune parallel. Blossom terminal umbela-loose. American Agave
Agave americana - herbaceous plant, perennial, rhizome drajonant. Arid soils increases in southern Texas, but naturalized in warm regions of the globe. Agave blooms just once in its life cycle, from 80-100 years after the plant dies. |
 
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