Fabaceae
Cancer bush
Lessertia frutescens
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Lessertia
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Common names
By language (8)
- Afrikaans
- Kankerbossie
- Arabic
- ساذجية متفرعة
- arz
- ليسرتيا فروتسنس
- Chinese
- 纸荚豆
- English
- Cancer bush
- German
- Ballonerbse
- Japanese
- レッセルティア・フルテスセンス
- Russian
- Сутерландия кустарниковая
Synonyms
- Colutea aethiopica Laun.
- Colutea frutescens L.
- Colutea grandiflora Salisb.
- Colutia frutescens (L.) Medik.
- Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) W.T.Aiton
Photos
Photo: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Consultaplantas, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Andrawaag, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Jimmy Whatmore, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.