Indigofera Glaucescens Family:
Fabaceae (Leguminosae)
African Name :
Confetti bush (Eng); Leeuhout (Afr)
Identification: This shrub consists of small red flowers which contain two similar petals which open up
away from each other. The flower is approximately three centimetres in full length and
the stem stands about thirty centimetres in height. The green erect stem contains branches
of closely set buds at the end of it and thin leaves on the other end. The stem and the
buds have tiny hairs covering their entire areas.
Habitat:
Sandstone outcrops
Flowering time: May to July
Notes: An indigofera plant bears an indigo d ye but only in certain Indigoferas such as in the Indigofera tinctoria and Indigofera suffruticosa. It is said there are seven hundred and thrity species of indigofera in the world, of which two hundred and ten are found in South Africa.