Lessertia frutescens - Cancer bush

Cancer bush (Lessertia frutescens) is a nitrogen-fixing, fast-growing deciduous shrub of cold semi-arid low-rainfall rangeland across southern Africa, one of the region’s most widely used medicinal herbs.

Inputs

• Well drained soil¹
• Full sun¹

Outputs

• Medicinal use¹

Type

• Shrub
• Deciduous

Functions

• Nitrogen fixer¹
• Drought-tolerance¹

Footnotes

1. Lessertia frutescens | Useful Tropical Plants ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵