Flowering Month: November

  • Crassula multicava

    Posted on by s2A mat forming evergreen perennial, happy in sun or shade. The round leaves are light to dark green depending on the position in the garden, darker in the shade and paler in semi-shade to sunny places. The flowers are petite,... Read more »

  • Crassula expansa subsp. filicaulis

    Posted on by s2Weak sprawling perennial with herbaceous stems, often rooting at nodes.  The leaves are often reddish in colour, opposite, obovate to ellipsoid. The small solitary dainty flowers appear on short stalks at the branches’ tips. Read more »

  • Crassula altropurpurea

    Posted on by s2Small, hardy, succulent plant growing near the bench over-looking Kingfisher Creek. It is found along the west and south-east coastlines. The ovoid to paddle shaped leaves are evenly spaced along erect stems. It bears flowers 4 mm long arranged in... Read more »

  • Cotyledon orbiculata

    Posted on by s2This fast growing succulent shrub provides interest throughout the year with its thick ear-looking leaves. The margins of the leaves often have a red line around it. The bell-shaped flowers are strikingly beautiful, hanging in clusters on the ends of... Read more »

  • Cotula sericea

    Posted on by s2Silky, sprawling herbaceous perennial with solitary button-like flowers of 10 to 15 mm in diameter on elongate leafless stalks. The leaves and stems are covered in fine hairs, giving it a silky smooth texture. Their life span is only a... Read more »

  • Cotula coronopifolia

    Posted on by s2Erect or sprawling perennial up to H30cm, moisture lover and salt tolerant with creeping stems which root under water which is why it is found growing in areas of the park subjected to flooding at spring tide. Flowers very small... Read more »

  • Convolvulus arvensis

    Posted on by s2Invasive Status South Africa: NEMBA 1b Dainty little plant commonly seen winding its way up grasses and small shrubs in the Park. The few leaves are very narrow and the diameter of flowers from 15 to 35 mm. Read more »

  • Cineraria saxifraga

    Posted on by s2A soft perennial shrublet with a spreading rounded bushy habit with delicate foliage and bright yellow flowers but unlike C. lobata does not have ear-like lobes at the base of the petioles (leafstalk). A very showy little bush with a... Read more »

  • Chironia baccifera

    Posted on by s2Grows profusely at the west end of the Park. Normally 450 mm tall, and as wide, producing a mass of starry, bright pink flowers (3/5 mm wide) and followed by a mass of red berries. A spectacular show in 2005... Read more »