Collections made by Peter Biegel

Tree 5 m. Foliage fresh, dark green. Flowers golden yellow, scented.

Mature tree 12 m high. Bark rough brown.

Seedlings from parent tree in same garden

A cluster of stems from woody root the site of a large man's fist, from which also short rhizomes.

Stems quite prostrate, weakly rooting at some nodes. Plant 0.8 m in diameter.

Shrub 3m, elsewhere observed at 4.5 m. Leaves very sharp-prickly. Flowers deep pink.

Tips of some fronds arching over and where they touch ground new plants develop

Tree 40 m. DBH 75 cm, heavily buttressed. Bark smooth, grey. Slash white, soft,wet. Underbark bright yellow.

Evergreen tree 15 m. DBh 70 cm. Bark brown, cracked in ± square flakes 3-4 mm thick; bark on branches less than 15 cm diameter is smooth. Crown spreading. Filaments white with pink on upper 1/3.

Spreading stems from woody root. Vexillum rose, keel off white tinged pink. Common. [Position estimated]

Plant erect, 0.4 m high. Name on the sheet is Amaranthus hybridus L. subsp. incurvatus (Trimen ex Gren & Godr.) Brenan which per POWO is a synonym of A. cruentus.

Evergreen tree, 3 m, with conical crown from ground level. Flowers sweetly scented.

Rhizomatous, covers area 3.5 X 2 m. Fertile fronds have diseased appearance. Brown in colour.

Shrub 4 m. Leaves dark olive-green above, grey below, much damaged by eating insects. Flowers orange.

Tree 3 m with open crown; branches and leaf rhachis armed; petals dark red with narrow yellow margin.

Cited in FZ 6(1)

Spreading open shrub 2.5 × 4 m. Flowers are said to be insignificant, greenish, with a very strong scent like a tuberose, at night.

Fronds to 1.6 m high

Common

Evergreen climber wihout support, forms mass 2 m high by 3 m wide; leaves dark glossy green. Fruit shiny black, when ripe splits and reveals an orange "beard", is then eaten by birds. Calyx wine-red, reflexed below mature fruit.

Climber 4m, trained against building. Foliage dark glossy green. Flowers scarlet.

Climber 3 m high. Foliage dark green. Calyx inflated, light creamy-white. Corolla dark red. Filaments light olive green.

Climber 3m, Leaves dull olive green; veins below slightly darker than surrounding tissue; calyx white with green base, 5-fluted; corolla dull red, limb at angle to tube.

Soft woody shrub, 1.2 m. Branches purple. Leaves purple below. Flowers erect, double, purple outside, whitish inside. Fruit sharp-knobbly.

Open shrub 2.5 m with copious milky juice. Bracts bright red.

E aspect

Liane climbing over a 7 m high shrub. Hairs soft and rust-brown.

Twiner to 1.25 m.Flowers in clusters, light mauve; throat dark mauve.

Clusters of stems from ends of rhizomes; fronds to 4ft high

Self-sown greenhouse plant. Weak herb, more or less decumbent and rooting at the nodes.

Cited in Flora Zmbesiaca Vol. 11 part 2: 349 (1998)

Shrub, 4 m, fruiting heavily; fruit red.

Tree 5 m with a dense indeterminate crown. Flowers golden yellow.