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Silene burchellii Seeds

Gunpowder Plant; Kruitbossie

Silene is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. Silene species attract butterflies to the garden and are used as food plants by the larvae of many lepidopterans. Silene is the feminine form of Silenus, a Greek woodland deity. If the related genera Lychnis, Melandrium and Viscaria are included in Silene, it contains about 700 species. Silene burchellii, synonymously known as Silene thunbergiana and commonly known as Gunpowder Plant in English or Kruitbossie in Afrikaans, is a South African endemic flowering perennial found in the Western Cape Province ranging from Darling to the Cape Peninsula and Agulhas Plain.