This slow-growing plant forms clusters of dark green leaves on the forest floors where it grows.

It produces white or yellow flowers in spring and then clusters of fleshy black fruits.

Further east - in the Eastern Cape and Kwazulu-Natal - this plant's close relative Knowltonia capensis is rather more common.

It grows very slowly but once established it is tough and attractive, and survives deep shade where other plants would die.

It grows much faster if it is watered regularly, and should be allowed to establish itself, free from competition from faster-growing groundcovers.