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A plant found naturally growing in our region.
A large impressive specimen reaching 2 to 3 metres
in width, it exists in a variety of colours including
green, blue/grey, yellow/green or blue and white. |
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(aloifolia, filamentosa, gloriosa)
These three very similar plants are commonly found.
They flower at differing periods through summer
and autumn. Their leaves are very stiff and long
and look like knife blades. They are typically
either a dull green colour or varigated green
and yellow. It bears enormous ivory coloured flowers
which hang from vertical stalks some 80cm high.
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Perhaps the least exotic in appearance, it is
made up of soft green ball shaped leaves and its
stems bear cascades of small flowers in the summer.
It has little resistance to frost but if it suffers
from a frost attack it has the ability to regrow
itself from its stump. Radical temperature changes
pose little problem to this plant.
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(Opuntia ficus-Indica)
Often to be seen in Northern Africa where it takes
on the aspect of a hedge, the Barbary Fig with
its large racket shaped leaves can grow as tall
as 5 metres. The yellow flowers precede the arrival
of its fruit or figs which when ripe take on a
blackish colour. |
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(Carpobrotus)
A rather amusing name but one which none-the-less
sums up the appearance of this plant. The leaves
are triangular in shape and fleshy, growing in
pairs along the length of its branches. It is
a perennial producing large yellow or pink blooms
and propogates freely. |
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Smaller than Carpobrutus, an annual plant which
spreads a profusion of flowers when ideally placed
in a sunny, dry climate. |
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