Top

Scientific Name
Synonyms
Family
Common Names
Origin
Naturalised Distribution
Notes
Print Fact Sheet
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYXZ

Click on images to enlarge

Muraltia heisteria, on the lower slopes of Table Mountain, South Africa. Photo by Malcolm Manners (CC BY 2.0), www.flickr.com

By Peter Baker [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Muraltia heisteria

Scientific Name

Muraltia heisteria (L.) DC.

Synonyms

Polygala heisteria L.

Family

Polygalaceae

Common Names

African furze, furze muraltia, purple gorse

Origin

Native to south-western Africa (i.e. western South Africa).

Naturalised Distribution

Naturalised some parts of south-eastern Australia (i.e. naturalised in the coastal districts of central and northern New South Wales, in southern Victoria and in south-eastern South Australia).

Notes

African furze (Muraltia heisteria) is regarded as an environmental weed in South Australia and is listed as a priority environmental weed in at least one Natural Resource Management region.