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Brunia noduliflora Goldblatt & J.C.Manning

Family	:	Bruniaceae
Local name	:	English- common brunia
Flowering and fruiting period	:	Flowering in winter, fruiting all year around
Distribution	:	South Africa
Habitat	:	Hills and mountains slopes
Endemic/Exotic	:	Endemic to the south-western and southern Cape
Uses	:	ts foliage is a useful, long-lasting filler, and the knobby fruiting heads are an interesting feature in floral arrangements.
Key botanical characters:  is an evergreen rounded shrub that grows  coppicing from a fire-resistant, woody base. The branches are covered with minute hairs and are closely covered with many small,needle-like leaves lying flat against the branch. The flowers are in dense globose heads 10 mm across, like fluffy pom-pons, white and fragrant, loosely or heavily clustered in corymbs (± flat-topped inflorescences in which the branches arise at different points. They are made fluffy by their long stamens, and age to an attractive brown-pink.