Collections made by Peter Biegel

Mature tree 12 m high. Bark rough brown.

Seedlings from parent tree in same garden

A cluster of stems from woody root the site of a large man's fist, from which also short rhizomes.

Tips of some fronds arching over and where they touch ground new plants develop

Tree 40 m. DBH 75 cm, heavily buttressed. Bark smooth, grey. Slash white, soft,wet. Underbark bright yellow.

Spreading stems from woody root. Vexillum rose, keel off white tinged pink. Common. [Position estimated]

Plant erect, 0.4 m high. Name on the sheet is Amaranthus hybridus L. subsp. incurvatus (Trimen ex Gren & Godr.) Brenan which per POWO is a synonym of A. cruentus.

Herb. Flowers dark mauve/ light purple.

Single-stemmed perennial. Stem from swollen soft-woody short carrot-like root. Corolla outside light green, inside yellow-green and white hairy, hairs longest at the base. Corona on corolla buse [?], filiform, off-white.

Tree 12 m with domed crown.

Tree 3 m with open crown; branches and leaf rhachis armed; petals dark red with narrow yellow margin.

Cited in FZ 6(1)

Spreading open shrub 2.5 × 4 m. Flowers are said to be insignificant, greenish, with a very strong scent like a tuberose, at night.

Fronds to 1.6 m high

Common

Semi-scandent shrub 1.7 m high x 3 m wide. Copious milky latex from cut surfaces. Flowers mauve. Corona at base of cup, purple.

"Very doubtful if cultivated".

Soft woody shrub, 1.2 m. Branches purple. Leaves purple below. Flowers erect, double, purple outside, whitish inside. Fruit sharp-knobbly.

Cited in a draft account for Flora Zambesiaca of the Hyacinthaceae. Plant in flower.

Rounded shrub 2 m, said to be severely cut back annually. Flowers a delicate pink with a darker centre.

Open shrub 2.5 m with copious milky juice. Bracts bright red.

Prostrate herb. Collector number is for GV Pope.

Tree 15 m. Crown tall - rounded, heavy. Bark smooth, grey. White latex from cut branch ends.

Growing together with Geophila obvallata

E aspect

Liane climbing over a 7 m high shrub. Hairs soft and rust-brown.

Dense dark green climber; flower perianth yellow.

Somewhat spreading shrub 1.2 m slightly aromatic scent reminiscent of tar and spices. Flowers golden yellow, showy against the dark green foliage.

Tree 6 m. Bark smooth, grey, very thin; UB green. Flowers white with very slight musty-sweet scent.

Twiner to 1.25 m.Flowers in clusters, light mauve; throat dark mauve.

Clusters of stems from ends of rhizomes; fronds to 4ft high

Calyx green outside, greenish-white within like the petals. Corona fimbriate, mauve at base, the remainder greenish-white. Climber 4 m.

Fronds upper surface olive green, lower surface lighter green with dark brown centred light brown scales

Dense tall-rounded evergreen tree with dark, freshly-green foliage.

Cited in Flora Zmbesiaca Vol. 11 part 2: 349 (1998)

Small bush to 1.5 m tall

Garden ornamental. Rather dense shrub, somewhat spreading, 4 m high.

Dense rounded shrub 2 m high, 2.5 m across. Flowers a dull coppery red marked with dull old-gold within. This subsp. [i.e. subsp. nyassae] is less floriferous than subsp. capensis.

With grass and Sphenostylis erecta, Vigna frutescens and Thunbergia lancifolia

Among 5 ft tall Setaria sphacelata. Flowers greenish with dull blue on edge vexillum. Pods hairy, pendulous.