Collections made by Peter Biegel

Blue-silver tree 9 m. Bark smooth, grey. Leaves held stiffly patently from branches. Flowers a deep golden yellow.

Tree 4 m. Foliage silver-grey. Flowers golden yellow.

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

Tree 12 m. Bark smooth grey. Young flush of some individuals reddish.

Mature tree 12 m high. Bark rough brown.

Tree 4 m. Foliage somewhat greyish-green.

Seedlings from parent tree in same garden

Erect tree to 14 m. Flowers pale cream.

Unarmed tree, 3.5 m. Bark smooth, grey. Flowers golden-yellow.

Tree 5 m with rounded crown of arching then pendulous branches. Flowers golden-yellow.

As A. godseffiana. Untidy small shrub 1 m. Leaves light green with cream margins.

As A. godseffiana var. heterophylla Hort. Shrub 2m, with fairly loose, tall-rounded crown; ragged-looking with criss-cross branches and leaves with a shredded look, light green with whitish margins.

As A. wilkesiana. Shrub 4 x 2 m. New leaves unfold red-brown, with red veins above and below; darken as they mature, finally dull green brown.

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.

Tree 5 m. Twigs green.

Treelet 1.7 m with fairly rounded crown. Leaves dull brown-red above, olive green below. Cv. 'Atropurpureum'.

Climber over 2 m high fence. Makes very sparse cover. Pith in twigs lamellate. Hairs on twigs, petioles, brown; on leaves below very light yellowy brown. Native of China.

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.

Tree 18 m. Bark grey, smooth, underbark densely red-mottled on cream. DBH 1 m but 3 main stems from 1.5 m. Crown flat with ± 7 m spread. [Not easy to read].

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

[Altitude looks a bit high for Highlands]

Plant spreading. Inflorescence light dun brown. [Collector number is Biegel's]

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.

Herb. Flowers dark mauve/ light purple.

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

Climber over 3 m high shade house. Pseudostipules curled round stem. Flowers geniculate, lower lobe 2-lobed to 1/3 to mouth of tube. Lobes densely veined red-brown on cream ground, liver-brown on either side of and above mouth of tube. Syrinx present, its rim a 1/2 circle. Stamens 6. When hairs in the tube are still firm, flower emits a lemon-like scent.

Single-stemmed perennial. Stem from swollen soft-woody short carrot-like root. Corolla outside light green, inside yellow-green and white hairy, hairs longest at the base. Corona on corolla buse [?], filiform, off-white.

Young tree 4 m high. Bark green. Branches spreading. Immature fruit green.

Tree 8 m. Bark smooth, grey-green. Crown light, conical; twigs long with the leaves ± gathered at the end. Flowers creamy-yellow.

Tree 8 m with open rounded crown. Flowers creamy-yellow.

Young tree 5 m. Bark green, Fruit persists in clusters while new leaves appear.

Erect shrub, 1 m. Flowers blue-mauve.

Shrub ± 40 cm high × 60 cm diameter. Foliage dull dark green. Flowers pure white, fade light blue.

Shrublet 1.5 m high; capitula purplish-mauve; petioles, leaves below and twigs densely covered with purple hairs; leaves above olive green and velvety to the touch.

Dense shrub 0.7 m with sharp spines. Leaves leathery, dark green above, lighter below. Flowers yellow.

Tree 12 m with domed crown.

Vigorous climber, covers 3 m high shade house over area 6 x 6 m. Flowers: tube yellow within, dull brown-red outside; the limbs dull brown-red with yellow margin; this narrower on upper 3 lobes.

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

Open rounded shrub 3 m. Foliage greyish-green above, almost white below.

Somewhat sprawling shrub 3 m with arching branchlets. Flowers white without scent.

With Hypericum revolutum, Philippia. Lax shrub 3.5 m high. Leaves discolourous; flowers dull light to pinky-brown, limb white. 2 plants seen.

Shrub 3 m with erect branches. Leaves olive-green above, grey below. Flowers dark mauve.

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.

Shrub 1.6 m with ascending-spreading branches, Calyx much inflated, yellowish green, fades to grey-brown.

Shrub 2 m of open habit with stiff branches. Foliage dark green. Flowers bright red.

Very spreading open shrub, 0.7 m high x 2 m. Stamens off-white in lower half, upper half pink.

Shrub 2m of spreading open habitat. Stamens dark red.

Shrub 6 m x 6 m at the base. Leaflets 11-13(-15) per leaf, glabrous. Calyx reddish and yellow. Corolla orange.

Rounded shrub, climber but without support, forming a mass 5 x 5 m. Leaflets (7-)9-11 per leaf. Calyx orange as is corolla.

Climber over wire mesh 2 m. Corolla outside orange-yellow, lighter at base; inside brick-red. A second plant on Lannea edulis, attached with roots to the bark,

Has taken over the crown of a 5 m high apple tree. Average number of leaflets 9-11 per leaf. Corolla orange.

Tree 20 m. Bark cracking in narrow longitudinal flakes. Crown open, tall, of ascending branches.

Deciduous tree 6 m with rounded crown. New leaves fully formed. Flowers off-white.

Tree 4 m with several branches from the base. Bark grey, smooth. Said to produce viable seeds.

Tree 10 m with rounded-conical crown. Leaves emit unpleasant scent when crushed. Flowers white, tube within and lower lip more or less densely purple veined. Base lower lip with 2 yellow stripes.

Cited in FZ 6(1)

Inflorescence spherical, the flowers crowded give off an offensive smell; pedicels, calyces off-white greenish; this colour but deeper on outside corolla segments; cup and segments inside chocolate brown.

Two herbaceous stems 12 inches high. Petals connate at apex, white outside, vert light green inside. Also wet material.

Perennial herb; stem 10 inches. This specimen was flowing on 6th November 1967.

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

Ground cover, 15 cm high. Flowers yellow. Does not appear to root at nodes.

[Altitude given (1580 m) is surely too high].

Soft-woody plant 1.7 m, the stems clustered at ground level. Has strong musty smell when even lightly crushed. Shoots arise up to 2 m from parent plant. Flowers rose-pink, filaments white, anthers dark-mauve.

Dense shrub 1.5 m. Inflorescence congested; calyx, corolla tube pink; limb white with patches pink flush; scentless. Crushed leaves emit musty unpleasant smell.

Shrub 2 m high and as wide. Leaves dull olive green. Inflorescence red: axis bright red, peduncles, pedicels red; flowers bright red.

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.

As Clerodendrum nutans. Young plants 1 m high. Foliage dark green. Inclorescence arching, the terminal half pendulous. Flowers showy: calyx red, corolla white, genitals long exserted.

Semi-scandent shrub. Calyx pink, corolla red.

Young plants. Climber 1.5 m. Leaves green; veins below darker than surrounding tissue; calyx bright wine-red. Not fluted; corolla dark red. Limb at angle to tube.

Plant 2 m tall. Flowers white with slight unpleasant scent. When dry, emits a strong pungent and almost asphixiating smell.

As Cordyline terminalis. Single stem, 4m with leaves gathered towards apex.

Erect single-stemmed plant. Leaves green except for young leaves whch have close purple striations, particularly below. Flowers white with a light mauve flush. Anthers yellow.

Bushy shrub, c. 5 m

Garden ornamental. Grown as ground cover, c. 10 cm high. Corollas mauve-pink. Stems root at nodes where they touch the ground. Determined by P.A. Hypio [name not clear].

Open shrub with arching branches to 4 m long. Flowers light mauve. Copious milky juice from cut surfaces. Grown from seed locally collected; this plant is less stiff and the flowers are a lighter mauve compared with the usual habit and flower colour in Rhodesia.

Semi-scandent shrub 1.7 m high x 3 m wide. Copious milky latex from cut surfaces. Flowers mauve. Corona at base of cup, purple.

Dense spreading shrub, 0.6 x 1 m wide. Foliage dark green; flowers a deep rosy-pink.

Lax shrub 0.7 m. Foliage fresh green. Flower tube red, the limb black except the upper which is white.

Rhizomatous perennial herb, stem to 3 ft high. Flowers yellow, flushed red at the base of the tube and along the upper side. Plant somewhat viscous.

Leafless parasite with flexuous, brown, filiform stems. Flowers yellowish. Area sown to imported seed ex USA.

Masses of yellow to brown-yellow threads. Flowering and fruiting profusely. Plant covers c. 2 x 3 m area.

Leafless parasite with flexuous, brown, filiform stems. Flowers yellowish. Area sown to imported seed ex USA.

Leafless green-twigged climber forming a dense mass of branches ± 7 feet above ground. Flowers whitish.

"Very doubtful if cultivated".

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

Tree 5m. Branches spreading to ascending; spread of crown 6 m. Flowers off-white, fade to deep cream. Upper petals of freshly-opened flowers green-infused. Claws of all petals wide, flushed dark-red.

This is the only record form C in SRGH on 13 Dec 2006

Shrub 3 m with stiff erect-ascending branches. Foliage light green. Native of India, Sri Lanka, Malay Peninsula, Indonesia.

Fruit tree, 5 m. Fruit scarlet, more or less square, 6 cm across, 6.5 cm diagonally, 5 cm deep. Flesh orange without seeds, of sweet taste.

Unhealthy tree, 3 m. Flowers deep cream; calyx enlarges after flowering

About 100 yds and 3 ft vertically lower a large colony of D. viride and a small one of D. longifolium. Bulb white, rest green. Part of scape with unopened flowers pendulous, becomes erect as they open. Ovary sessile, stigma club-shaped, style short. Base of filaments with shallow U-curve.

Cited in a draft account for Flora Zambesiaca of the Hyacinthaceae. Plant in flower.

Rounded shrub 2 m, said to be severely cut back annually. Flowers a delicate pink with a darker centre.

Rounded, soft-woody, open shrub 3m. Flower pink, persist and turn light brown; staminodes white, kinear

Unarmed shrub, spreading, 6 ft high. Branches brown. Leaves dull green above, silver below and with brown scales. Stamens 4, stigmatic surface part of style hooked.

Cited in Flora Zambesiaca Vol. 8 pt. 8: 228 (2013).

Tree, 3 m, crown round. Petals creamy-yellow. Style, stamens red. Calyx, pedicels brown glandular-hairy.

Dense shrublet 0.4 m. Leaves dull, light olive-green with cream margins. On the sheet is written var. radicans (Miq.) Rehd. 'Gracilis'.

Young plant, 60 cm, somewhat bushy, in planting sleeve. Leaves dark, somewhat glossy green. Flowers

Dense shrub 1 m high, 2 branches projected to 1.6 m. Branches creamy-green. Leaves glossy, light olive-green with a white-cream margin. A few branches are cream and bare leaves totally cream.

Perennial herb 0.6 m. Leaves green; Involucral leaves with red area lower 1/2, the inner smaller and all red.

Shrub with low branches 1.5 m high, all parts with white sap. Branches arching gracefully, c. 2.5 m long. Floral bracts coral red above, orange-yellow below; stamens yellow. Flowers very attractive.

Armed succulent shrub 1 m with copious milky latex. Branches grey, angled, with 8 rows of spines. Leaves at ends of branches; margin and midrib below red; lower leaves dull red autumn tinted, particularly below. Peduncle viscid, tinged red above. Bracts bright red. Labelled var. hislopii.

Densely branched, armed succulent shrub c. 0.6 m with copiuos milky latex. Branches spreading, dark grey, smooth, almost round, the paired spines not in apparent rows. Peduncle viscid, tinged red above. Bracts bright red.

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

Prostrate herb. Collector number is for GV Pope.

Cited in Flora Zambesiaca volume 9 part 5: 378, 2001

Perennial, tufting; tuft c. 0.4 m diameter at the base; stems up to 0.6 m tall; bracts greeny-yellow.

Young plant, c. 0.5 m high.

Tree 15 m. Crown tall - rounded, heavy. Bark smooth, grey. White latex from cut branch ends.

Climber, attached to wooden pole 3 m high with short aerial roots. Copious milky juice from cut surfaces (from cambium ring and from the centre of twigs).

Untidy dense shrub 2 m high with a few 4 m long shoots. Flowers yellow.

Grafted tree to 3 m high with very narrow crown. Fruit spherical, orange.

Labelled F. biltmoreana.

Tree 7 m. Bark smooth, grey. Terminal bud scales 3-fid, ferrugineous.

Labelled var. tourneyi. Tree, 7 m.

Labelled var. glabra

Rounded, ± dense shrub, 1.3 m. Twigs red. Branches, petioles and leaf undersurface red-brown. Flowers light mauve.

Shrub 2.5 m, leggy at the base, with a closed rounded crown. Twigs brown. Flowers canary yellow. Filaments turn from yellow to dull red after anthesis. Labelled as Thryallis glauca.

Young climbing plant 1.5 m high, in plastic planting sleeve. Flowers yellow.

Growing together with Geophila obvallata

E aspect

Open shrub with a few spreading branches, severely cut back, now 1.5 m high, 3 m across. Calyx red-brown, petals rose-pink with an off-white-greenish stripe down the centre of the vexillum.

Open shrub 1.2 m, the branches virgate, the outer branches arching outwards. Foliage bluish-grey. Flowers white. A graceful small shrub.

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

Scabrous perennial with annual stems to 1.7 m from a perennial leaf rosette which forms short rhizomes, plant becoming caspitose. Flowers golden yellow, 'open' from the apex downwards.

Perennial herb with annual flowering stems to 1-5 m [Or 1.5 m?] from an untidy leaf rosette. Flowers golden yellow.

Bush 1ft high. Flowers pale yellow. Slight scent when crushed.

Unbranched tree, 6 m, with crown of leaves topped by several spreading cylindrical red inflorescences, very striking in colour and appearance. Grown from seed from Kershaw (seed merchants) Sydney, Asutralia

Hibiscus syriacus - form with large white flowers. Erect shrub, 2 m. Base of cup greenish-white; flowers larger than typical.

Dense dark green climber; flower perianth yellow.

Scrambling shrub with stems up to 3 m long trailing over rocks. Perianth green with light green margins to the segments.

Trailing shrub.

1.5 m shrub climbing at the ends.

Somewhat spreading shrub 1.2 m slightly aromatic scent reminiscent of tar and spices. Flowers golden yellow, showy against the dark green foliage.

Much-branched, virgate shrub 2.5 m. Flowers golden yellow. Seed collected in Juliasdale, Rhodesia 1962.

Erect evergreen shrub 2 m. Leaves coriaceous with spiny margins; cream variegated.

Tree 6 m. Bark smooth, grey, very thin; UB green. Flowers white with very slight musty-sweet scent.

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

Shrub 2.5 m against N-facing wall. Inflorescence branches and calyx dull red; flowers salmon to pinky-red.

Young plant 40 cm high in plastic planting sleeve. Foliage dark green; flowers WAXY, deep cream. Determined by PA Hyypio as var. lutea Hutch.

Untidy twiner 1.5 m. Stems root at nodes where these touch soil. Flowers dull mauvy-pink.

Dense shrub, rounded, 4 m high, 3 m diameter. Flowers yellow.

Shrub 3 m tall, rather erect; flowers yellow. Specimen labelled var. revolutum (Sims) Kobuski

Recorded as Jasminum nitidum. Shrub 0.8 m, rather spreading. Leaves dark, glossy green, lighter green below. Flowers white.

Cited in Flora Zambesiaca Vol. 7 part 1: 313 (1983)

Climber which forms a mass on a 1.3 m fence, the mass 3 m high, 5 m long

Groundcover, climbs to 3 m on support. Flowers white, reverse of limb and tube reddish; strongly sweetly scented.

Rather stunted shrub 0.4 m. Flowers shite, semi-double, strongly sweetly scented.

Tree 6 m with smooth grey bark and rounded crown,

Erect shrub 12 m high, c. 3 m wide. Calyx showy, pinky-mauve, cup-shaped; corolla mauve-blue.

Rootstock tuberous. Flowers deep blood red

Cited in Manning et al., 2013: 97

Tree 4 m. Crown round - spreading to 3 m. Inflorescence erect; flowers mauve.

Fairly dense, rounded shrub 6 m high. Foliage fairly dark green. Flowers rose-pink when newly open, fade to a very light pink. Calyx of 9 flowers examined each with 9 glands.

Open shrub, 3 m high. Flowers pinky-mauve.

Rhizomatous shrub with unbranched stems to ± 1 m, covering an area 2 x 2.5 m openly. Foliage blue-green.

Shrub 5m, sparse with a few erect branches which are cut to near ground level annually; large panicles, capitula are borne high up; ray florets white, disc-florets yellow, emit a faint fresh-sweet scent.

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

Erect ?perennial. Flowers pinky-mauve. Two plants seen.

Stiff shrub 3 m high, 1 m wide. Twigs with yellowish encrustation. Flowers golden yellow. Young fruiting calyx turning red.

Stiff shrub yellowish twigs. Calyx red, fruit green, ripens black.

Stiff shrub 1.5 m. Branches conspicuously yellow-grey and lenticellate. Fruiting calyx red. Fruits green, ripen black.

Ground cover 10-15 cm high with grey-green foliage and light yellow ray-florets and same colour disk-florets. Stems root at the nodes where these touch the ground.

Tree 4 m. Bark green, smooth. Flower buds to 15 cm long; sepals green, petals and stamens cream.

As Fahrenheitia zeylanica. Tree with wide columnar crown, 14 m. Sap copious, watery, turns slightly brown on exposure. Inflorescence arching, the greater part pendulous. Flowers light cream.

Calyx green outside, greenish-white within like the petals. Corona fimbriate, mauve at base, the remainder greenish-white. Climber 4 m.

Climber 2 m. Flowers dull pink.

Low climber. Flowers dull pink.

Vigorous climber over 3 m high shade house. Calyx green with a ± wide whitish-green margin. Petals without: light mauve, within: mauve. Corona base brown-purple to just below the middle where light mauve, then a white band above which (for just over 1/2 of total length) blue-mauve.

Full details to be extracted.

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

Leggy shrub 3 m, with light open crown.

Basl bracts kidney shaped, brown; fronds grey-green; sterile; only one seen.

Fronds upper surface olive green, lower surface lighter green with dark brown centred light brown scales

Tree 5 m. Crown dense. Leaves low in crown narrow, conspicuously toothed, high in crown wide and inconspicuously lobulate. All petioles with elongated light-coloured spots.

Erect plant 1.8 m with few erect side branches. Petiole with white spots, its apex where leaflets radiate, brown-red; midrib brown-red, leaf dull, dark olive green, teeth tips red.

Erect shrub to 3 m with several erect main stems with dark brown bark which peels in thin flakes which curl transversely exposing new café au lait new bark, Foliage glossy green. Plant said to produce fruit on mature stems; fruit used for jelly.

Dense tall-rounded evergreen tree with dark, freshly-green foliage.

Specimen on JSTOR

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

Weakly succulent, weak-stemmed herb.

Small bush to 1.5 m tall

Rounded shrub 3 m. Foliage dark; leaves with felted grey undersurface. Leaves on innovation with sharply pointed lobes.

Tree 8 m. Leaves turn dull red before they drop.

Shrub 2 m, fairly dense. Flowers tube pale pink, limb paler, throat densely yellow-hairy.

Fairly dense shrub 1.7 m. Flower tube pale pink, limb paler, throat densely yellow-hairy.

Open shrub 1 m. Flowers red-orange with yellow throat - highly ornamental.

Weed in lucerne field

Annual.

Shrub, 4 m, fruiting heavily; fruit red.

Tree 9 m. with fairly spreading crown and pendulous branchlets. Bark grey, cracked and reticulate.

Tree 5 m with rounded crown. Foliage fresh green.

Garden ornamental. Rather dense shrub, somewhat spreading, 4 m high.

Open shrub 2.6 m with arching branches. Petioles often red, darkest towards the leaf base. :eaves not scented when crushed. Touching leaves is said to cause a rash to certain people.

Lat/Long estimated by MAH

Virgate tree 8 m. SBH 12 cm. Bark smooth, grey. Flowers produced between 4 and 6 m above ground, on trunk and on short lateral branches in leaf axils. Pedicels dull reddish. Flower lacquer red. Disc cylindrical, ± 4 mm high. Ovary on gynophore yellow hairy. Stima yellow. Anther thecae brown, on a yellow shield. Stamens fall leaving a gynoecium-like round cage on the peduncle.

Lax shrub c. 1 m high x 1.5 m across. Flowers dull red-brown upper side where exposed to sun, dull yellow below.

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

Tree 14 m. Leaves mostly 3-foliolate, a few leaves simple. Inflorescence dense; flowers canary yellow without any markings; emit a faint sweet scent.

Dense rounded shrub 2 m high, 2.5 m across. Flowers a dull coppery red marked with dull old-gold within. This subsp. [i.e. subsp. nyassae] is less floriferous than subsp. capensis.

Single-stemmed tree 4 m against house wall, crowned by light cream panicles, each globose and 0.7 m across. Leaves olive green above, greyish-brown below, to c. 0.8 m across. Regeneration round tree is regularly cut off.

With grass and Sphenostylis erecta, Vigna frutescens and Thunbergia lancifolia

The only collection of this species

Climber, 3 m, dense. Flowers yellowy green. White, semi-orbicular gland on anther connective.