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Lessertia frutescens
About
Lessertia frutescens is a southern African legume in the family Fabaceae. It is also known as cancer bush, balloon pea, Cape bladder pea, sutherlandia; and phetola in seTswana, and insiswa in isiZulu. It is a shrub with bitter, aromatic leaves, with red-orange flowers appearing in spring to mid-summer. These are followed by inflated, air-filled pods containing the seeds.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Lessertia frutescens
- Slug
- lessertia-frutescens
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Lessertia
- Species
- frutescens
- Wikidata QID
- Q805318
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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