Botany: mountain grassland in Eastern Southern Africa; flowers early in the summer rainfall areas in spring before the rains have started and has small flowers that are white to pale mauve, veined or flushed purple on the reverse and with yellow nectar guides. It grows from 10 to 20 cm. tall and flowers before the single leaf.
Content: bufadienolides, bufotalin steroids with a delta-lactone residue at position 17, homologous to the cardenolides that bind a gamma-lactone instead of the delta-lactone; heart glycosides.
Culture: movie Summer in Orange, Marcus Rosenmüller.