Leucas glabrata

Family Lamiaceae

About 30cm in height

Found near Pundu Maria, KNP

(Baccharoides adoensis kotschyana)

Family Asteraceae

Found near Pundu Maria in Kruger National Park.

About 45cm in height

Selago geniculata

Family Scrophulariaceae

Jessop (Protasparagus mucronatus)

Family Asparagaceae

About 1m in height. Found growing in the Eastern Cape.

Umzimbeet (Millettia grandis)

 Family Fabaceae

 A tall tree which can grow to 25m indigenous to the KwaZulu Natal region.

 Umzimbeet's hard wood with its attractive coloration is valued for the manufacture of furniture and small domestic implements. Today it is used for making tough, bicoloured walking sticks which are sold to tourists.
It can also be used as a windbreak and harvested at 10-15 years for planks in high rainfall areas. It also makes an attractive garden and street tree and it does not have an aggressive root system.

 It can be planted along pastures and fence lines to act as a windbreak and shelters for animals. The stems are easily cut into planks when fresh. The only animals to utilize the plants are baboons who strip and eat the bark, and some butterflies whose larvae feed on the pods.

 The powdered root can be used as a fish poison, but fish must be boiled before consumption. The ground seed soaked in milk is used as a remedy for roundworm, but with caution as consuming too many seeds is poisonous. It is reported that a mixture of roots with those of Croton species with one part of lion's fat and one part of python's fat is burnt in the house as a tranquilizer to dispel worries; other recipes exist for sleep-inducing cures based on the roots. Ground seed can be used as an arrow poison.

Info: http://www.plantzafrica.com

Star Flower (Hypoxis colchicifolia)

Family Hypoxidaceae

There are various species of Hypoxis:

http://natureswow2.blogspot.com/2014/04/star-flower-hypoxis-rigidula-pilosissima.html

http://natureswow2.blogspot.com/2012/08/hairy-star-flower-hypoxis-hemerocallidea.html

All are small plants growing to about 20-25cm in height and found in grasslands.

Hypoxis colchicifolia was found in the Wild Coast Sun, Eastern Cape region.

Lobelia coronopifolia

Family Lobeliaceae  

 Grows to about 30cm in height and has no common name.

 Found mostly in the Cape but also along the eastern coast.