Sutherlandia / Lessertia frutescens - Cancer Bush - Indigenous South African Shrub - 10 Seeds Growing Bags plants can form a carpet

plants can form a carpet of green foliage

In some species the old leaves persist and form a short column on which new leaves develop

dry capsule 59 mm diameter

Members of this family lure

Sutherlandia / Lessertia frutescens - Cancer Bush - Indigenous South African Shrub - 10 Seeds Growing Bags plants can form a carpetSutherlandia frutescens, is a much respected and long used medicinal plant that is also an attractive garden plant, and has been cultivated in gardens for many years, for its fine form, striking colour and luminous flowers. FoliageSutherlandia is an attractive small, soft wooded shrublet, 0. 5 to 1 m in height. The leaves are pinnately compound . The leaflets are 4 10 mm long, grey green in colour, giving the bush a silvery appearance. They have a