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Virgilia oroboides
Also called Cape Virgilia, Stream Keurboom
Keurboom (Virgilia oroboides) is a small tree from the Western Cape of South Africa, grown for its fragrant pink-white pea flowers and shade. It does best in full sun to part shade in well-drained soil, and it is slow-growing and tolerant of dry spells once established.
Virgilia oroboides, also known as the Cape Virgilia, is a species of tree in the Keurboom genus which is endemic to South Africa.
Virgilia oroboides is found in the Western Cape, along the narrow strip of forested coastline from the Cape Peninsula to George.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Virgilia oroboides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
