Zehneria Marlothii - Indigenous South African Creeper / Ground Cover - 5 Seeds Container Strawberry

Zehneria Marlothii - Indigenous South African Creeper / Ground Cover - 5 Seeds Container StrawberryZehneria species are either monoecious or dioecious, annual or perennial, climbing vines. Their leaves are simple, dentate and usually palmately lobed. Inflorescences grow on axillary racemes, with the flowers normally clustered, occasionally solitary. The fruit is fleshy, usually globose or ellipsoidal, and indehiscent. The seeds are obovate, compressed and smooth. Annual herb, slender stems, very attractive pale green leaves & tendrils, small

The leaves are the only food resource of two kinds of edible caterpillars which are harvested in thousands during the rainy season

although there may be the odd flower at other times of the year also

It was listed pre-1900 in England and is probably the only decorative-leafed Victorian beetroot variety surviving

Creeping Daisy ground cover is perfect for sunny sites

A great spring through autumn flower

brownish or off-white

which plants can use

as long as the soil is fertile and well drained

South Carolina

around 4 cm long

Twiggy perennial to 30cm

This form has been put into L julii ssp julii