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Cancer Bush

Lessertia frutescens is a southern African legume in the family Fabaceae. It is also known as cancer bush, balloon pea, Cape bladder pea, sutherlandia; and phetola in seTswana, and insiswa in isiZulu. It is a shrub with bitter, aromatic leaves, with red-orange flowers appearing in spring to mid-summer. These are followed by inflated, air-filled pods containing the seeds.

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Taxonomy

Scientific: Lessertia frutescens
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Lessertia
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Fabales

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