Plant Profile
Tecoma Capensis
Common names: Cape Honeysuckle
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Shrub
Up to 2 m
Evergreen
Indigenous
Full Sun
Little water
Any Soil
Wind Resistant
Frost Resistant
Tecomaria capensis is an attractive ornamental garden plant commonly used for screening and decorative purposes, and can also be trimmed to form a hedge.
This shrub is widely distributed throughout Limpopo, Mpumalanga, along the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape coasts, and in Swaziland and Mozambique. It occurs in bush or scrub, occasionally on forest margins.
It withstands clipping and can be trained into a neat hedge, or allowed to bush out into a more informal hedge. To keep this shrub clean and tidy, it must be pruned back in late winter to promote new growth and flowers. Plants can be pruned back heavily if required, and will resprout. The application of a balanced fertilizer after pruning will enhance the growth and flowering.
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It has pinnately compound, glossy leaves that have oval leaflets with blunt teeth.
Flower
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Autumn / Winter
Light Yellow , Yellow , Dark yellow , Ochre , Yellow Orange , Light Orange , Orange , Dark Orange , Light Pink , Pink
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- Flower morphology
Flowering time for this shrub is very erratic and it often flowers all year round. Flowers are tubular in showy many-flowered heads and vary in colour from red, deep orange, yellow to salmon.
NOTES
Until recently it was known as Tecomaria capensis.Flowers vary from red deep orange yellow to salmon.The powdered bark of this attractive garden plant is used as a traditional medicine to relieve pain and sleeplessness.
It is also commonly planted as a hedge, both formal (clipped) and informal. Farmers also plant it, or encourage its growth, along fences as additional grazing for stock.
