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Photo from Desert Plants, Ebay.co.uk.


Wild plants from Malawi by Marco Schmidt, Africanplants.senckenberg.de.


The flowers close-up by Bart Wursten, Eol.org.

 

Author: John Isaac Briquet, 1894
Family:  LAMIACEAE
Origin:  Angola, Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Soil:  Rich - Mix
Water:  Medium
Sun:  Medium - Maximum
Thickness:  4 Centimetres
Height:  30-90 Centimetres
Flower:  Whitish Purple / Dark Purple
Propagate:  Seeds
Names:  -
Synonyms:  Aeollanthus canescens, Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke, 1895.
Aeollanthus njassae Gürke.
Aeollanthus nyikensis Baker.
Plectranthus rupicola, Dinter ex Gooss.
Plectranthus volkmannae, Dinter.

This member of the Lamiaceae family was given this name by John Isaac Briquet in 1894. It is found in Angola, Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zaïre and Zimbabwe, growing in a rich to well drained soil with some water and some to lots of sun. The caudex can grow to four centimetres in diameter, the entire plant from 30 to 90 centimetres in height. The flowers are whitish purple and might have dark purple spots..

The genera is named after the Greek god; Aiolos; god of winds, and 'anthos' means flower. The species name after J.G. Buchner, the German naturalist who collected the type specimen in Angola.


A large wild plant from Tanzania by Robert V. Blitterdorff, Africanplants.senckenberg.de.