RMBKG03R–Ballon Pea, Lessertia rigida, Namaqualand, South Africa
RM2R1PJEE–Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa) female feeding on Kankerbos (Lessertia frutescens) Hermanus, South Africa
RMD2MTTW–Cancer bush (Lessertia frutescens) in flower, South Africa
RF2G8R8G3–Lessertia montana Mountain cancer bush – scarlet red claw-like flowers and small oval grey green leaves, May, England, UK
RMR785J8–Cancer plant, Lessertia frutescens, in flower and fruit. Well-known medicinal plant. South Africa.
RF2GADN4D–A red and orange colored, inflated seed pod of a Balloon Pea, Lessertia Frutescens, in Goegap Nature reserve, Namaqualand South Africa
RMC043W9–Lessertia frutescens or Sutherlandia at Kirstenbosch in Cape Town
RMWWJA29–Sutherlandia frutescens
RMF6TGTF–Scarlet Balloon Pea-Sutherlandia fructescens/Lessertia fructescens Seed Pods and Flowers- Family Leguminosaceae
RF2RPFEJF–Balloon Pea (Lessertia frutescens). A close up of a balloon pea flowers, also known locally as Blaasertjie.
RMW7W0GJ–Kankerbos (Lessertia frutescens) flower, deHoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa.
RM2ABH5FE–Sutherlandia frutescens, Cancer bush, Ballonerbse, seeds, close up, seed size 3-4 mm
RMW7TTCM–Ballon Pea / Kankerbos (Lessertia frutescens) deHoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa.
RFDEAG5E–Blooming balloon pea or Kankerbos (Sutherlandia frutescens), Namaqualand, South Africa, Africa
RF2RMA49N–A close up of a balloon pea flowers, also known locally as Blaasertjie, found the roadside near Elandsdrift farm, De Hoop valley, near Uniondale, West
RM2BTPHD2–Lessertia candida E Mey.
RMA4HM4H–Lessertia frutescens Scarlet balloon pea Spring flowers in Goegap Nature Reserve Springbok Namaqualand South Africa
RM2RANY2Y–Annual lessertia, Lessertia annua or Colutea annua. Raised from seeds sent from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.
RMJ8DW6N–Lessertia frutescens
RM2E0XD8E–Lessertia perennans.
RM2R1PJDF–Southern Double-collared Sunbird (Cinnyris chalybeus), endemic to Southern Africa, feeding on Kankerbos (Lessertia frutescens) Hermanus, South Africa
RM2BTT9MT–Lessertia annularis Burch.
RM2H42TRN–Lessertia perennans DC.: flowering and fruiting stem with separate fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
RMR785GF–Cancer plant, Lessertia frutescens, in flower and fruit. Well-known medicinal plant. South Africa.
RMEYKY4C–Sutherlandia, medicinal plants against cancer,
RMC043TY–Lessertia frutescens or Sutherlandia at Kirstenbosch in Cape Town
RM2T69BJP–Annual lessertia, Lessertia annua or Colutea annua. Raised from seeds sent from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.
RM2E1PAPA–Edible dormouse or fat dormouse, Glis glis 11, Copepods, Lernaea multicornis, 1-10, Lessertia falciformis 12, and beetle, Lethrus cephalotes 13. Lernees, Lerot, Lessertie, Lethre. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.
RMW7TTCY–Balloon Pea / Kankerbos (Lessertia frutescens) deHoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa.
RFDEAG5F–Blooming balloon pea or Kankerbos (Sutherlandia frutescens), Namaqualand, South Africa, Africa
RMRDGCX1–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 204 NATURAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. Coluteee forms a third group with the six genera; Colutea, Suther- landia, Swainsona, Lessertia, Clianthus, and Eremosparton. These are herbaceous or rarely suffrutescent plants, of axUlary inflorescence. The flowers have a usually spreading or reflexed standard, diadelphous stamens (9-1), muticous anthers, a multiovulate ovary, and a style Astragalus verus.. Fia. 161. Habit (i). often rigid, always bearded along its superior edge. The fruit is often bladder-like. The fourth subseries or subtribe, Indigoferece, only includ
RMPG2X0F–. The natural history of plants. Botany. 204 NATURAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. Coluteee forms a third group with the six genera; Colutea, Suther- landia, Swainsona, Lessertia, Clianthus, and Eremosparton. These are herbaceous or rarely suffrutescent plants, of axUlary inflorescence. The flowers have a usually spreading or reflexed standard, diadelphous stamens (9-1), muticous anthers, a multiovulate ovary, and a style Astragalus verus.. Fia. 161. Habit (i). often rigid, always bearded along its superior edge. The fruit is often bladder-like. The fourth subseries or subtribe, Indigoferece, only includ
RMA4HM4M–Lessertia frutescens Scarlet balloon pea Spring flowers in Goegap Nature Reserve Springbok Namaqualand South Africa
RM2E0XD9E–Lessertia frutescens.
RM2BTT9MH–Lessertia fruticosa Lindl.
RMR785GC–Cancer plant, Lessertia frutescens, in flower and fruit. Well-known medicinal plant. South Africa.
RMED6YE9–The mountain cancer bush, Sutherlandia montana, in the Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa
RMF6TGTJ–Scarlet Balloon Pea-Sutherlandia fructescens/Lessertia fructescens Seed Pods and Flowers- Family Leguminosaceae
RMAP0H4P–Scarlet Balloon Pea-Sutherlandia fructescens syn. Lessertia fructescens- Family Fabaceae
RM2T6947P–Edible dormouse or fat dormouse, Glis glis 11, Copepods, Lernaea multicornis, 1-10, Lessertia falciformis 12, and beetle, Lethrus cephalotes 13. Lernees, Lerot, Lessertie, Lethre. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39. .
RMW7TTCX–Balloon Pea / Kankerbos (Lesertia frutescens) deHoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa.