Oldenburgia grandis

Oldenburgia grandis has stiff, spreading branches with a woolly covering on the younger parts. The crown is composed of large, stiff, leathery leaves, bicoloured and stalkless, in rosettes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are up to 360 mm long and 150 mm broad, oblong or egg-shaped. The leaf margins are untoothed and rolled inwards, the surface somewhat rounded above. When O. grandis is mature it has deep green, shiny leaves with a greyish-white midrib. More

Oldenburgia grandis is clearly not a biennial (or herbaceous perennial) as I opined. Interesting that Mabberley (Mabberley's Plant-Book) list the four members of the genus as either cushion plants (2) or subshrubs (2). More

Kreupelhout, Oldenburgia grandis (Daisy family) in grassy fynbos on Zuurberg 3. ... More