a drought-tolerant creeping plant, Carpobrotus edulis (family Aizoaceae; formerly included in the genus Mesembryanthemum), originally native to…

Usually attributive with thorn, thorn-tree, etc. A name given to various South African plants and shrubs with humorous reference to their hooked and…

A bulbous flowering plant, Oxalis pes-caprae (family Oxalidaceae), native to South Africa, having bright yellow flowers, trifoliate leaves, and a…

A genus of herbaceous plants (N.O. Musaceæ), natives of South Africa; also a plant of this genus.

Any of several evening-scented wild flowers of the family Iridaceae; esp. Hesperantha falcata, which has fragrant white flowers that open in the…

a South African herb, Uncaria (or Harpagophytum) procumbens, the fruit of which has many projecting claw-like hooks.

name for the South African genus Geissorhiza of iridaceous plants, from the overlapping scales on the rhizome, the remains of the bases of the leaves.

The pods of the tropical African acacia Acacia nilotica, used in tanning and dyeing.

Applied, usually with defining word, to species of this, and various plants more or less resembling it, or their flowers; also to the flowers of the…

any of several tall evergreen plants of the genus Strelitzia, esp. S. reginae (see sense 3); (also) a flower of such a plant.

A plant of the South African genus of herbs or sub-shrubs so named, of the family Compositæ; the Cape Marigold (see marigold, n. 1d).

= aandblom, n.

A small succulent plant of the genus so called, belonging to the family Aizoaceæ, native to Namaqualand, South Africa, and resembling small stones.