A honey bush with a purple tint! A fast-growing evergreen shrub that can grow up toeight feet talland ten feet wide and spreads rapidly by sucker roots.The blue green leaves are one foot long and has ten to fifteen serrated leaflets and when bruised have a strong salty peanut butter-like smell. Spikes of dark maroon-colored flowers are displayed on stalks above the foliage from winter through spring followed by papery seed pods. This plant goes dormant in the summer.
–Plant in full sun or part shade
– Best inwell-drained soil, does not need irrigation
– Native toSouth Africa
* All parts are known to be poisonous if ingested by people and pets – so while its an amazing plant please use cautiously!
[‘Full Sun’, ‘Light Shade’, ‘Native to South Africa’, ‘Non Native’, ‘red’, ‘south africa’, ‘spring’, ‘well drained’, ‘winter’]
