Another candlestick plant – apart from the Candelabrum
Spurge – is the Lion’s Ear. The Lion’s Ear (Leonotis
nepetifolia) is also called the Klip Dagga. It is native to Africa and
southern India, as well as South America and the West Indies.
The plant grows to 3 metres (almost 10 feet) and has
orange-red lipped (tubular) flowers in dense balls. The flowers can also be
white or purple.
It is a mint species found along roadsides and fields
in high elevation (1,600 metres above sea level) locations in the Rift Valley
near Eldoret, Kenya.
MARTINA NICOLLS is an international
aid and development consultant, and the author of:- Similar But Different
in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament
(2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a
Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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