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Strophanthus speciosus (Forest poison-rope, Forest tail-flower)

Bosgiftou [Afrikaans]

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid I > Order: Gentianales > Family: Apocynaceae > Subfamily: Apocynoideae > Genus: Strophanthus

Distribution: South Africa > Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo; Zimbabwe

Strophanthus speciosus (Forest poison-rope, Forest tail-flower)
Strophanthus speciosus (Forest poison-rope, Forest tail-flower) Strophanthus speciosus (Forest poison-rope, Forest tail-flower)

Strophanthus speciosus, under cultivation in Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Peninsula. [photo H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]