Elegia capensis - Horsetail Restio - Indigenous grass - 10 Seeds Maize and may have been used

and may have been used as a psychoactive plant in Mexico

A sprawling aloe that crawls along the ground or climbs up over rocks or other obstacles with long trailing stems bearing blue green leaves tipped with a tight rosette of these leaves

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Many of the Cape and Namaqualand species are very small and also very striking

Elegia capensis - Horsetail Restio - Indigenous grass - 10 Seeds Maize and may have been usedThis restio is a tall, dark green, elegant plant with large, decorative, papery sheaths along the stems. It is a good feature plant next to a pond, a swimming pool or in the garden. The stems grow from underground rhizomes, are quite thick, divided into sections (internodes) like bamboo plants and can be up to 3 m tall. At each node there is a circle of clumps of long, needle like branches, which give the plant its horsetail like appearance. The young