Plant: A dense low shrub that has highly fragrant light grey leaves. It grows in deep, silty soils that are often derived from shales, with leaves that are covered in woolly whitish hairs and single flower heads. It is the most well known of the 70 species of Pteronia, a genus of small woody shrubs from Southern Africa. It is endemic to South Africa and occurs all the way from East London in the Eastern Cape, throughout the Western Cape up to the Namibian border in the Northern Cape.
Uses: Please do your own research as we are no longer allowed to state indigenous and cultural uses
Aromatic Notes: Complex, wild, herbaceous scent reminiscent of the African Bush.
