Floral dreamscape
Misty plume bush is a pretty perennial, native to eastern South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe and is common in damp places, often beside streams. Also commonly known as nutmeg bush, ginger bush and iboza.
It is densely branched, with succulent stems and light green, rounded velvety leaves. It bears tiny white to mauve, tubular flowers in 8 cm long spikes in early spring as can be seen here. The leaves have a highly aromatic ginger scent.
This specimen was 1.5 m x 1.5 m.
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Floral dreamscape
Misty plume bush is a pretty perennial, native to eastern South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe and is common in damp places, often beside streams. Also commonly known as nutmeg bush, ginger bush and iboza.
It is densely branched, with succulent stems and light green, rounded velvety leaves. It bears tiny white to mauve, tubular flowers in 8 cm long spikes in early spring as can be seen here. The leaves have a highly aromatic ginger scent.
This specimen was 1.5 m x 1.5 m.
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