Cadaba aphylla is one of South Africa’s most stubborn and most adaptable plants. It will survive in the harshest of environments, including severe frost and drought. Plants are not restricted to a certain geographic area. They naturally grow in a wide range of habitats from arid summer rainfall areas, the Karoo, southern and eastern Cape in seasonal streams, flats, mountain slopes and dry ravines. They can endure long periods of drought and are also frost resistant. Cadaba aphylla flowers profusely when planted in full sun in fairly dry conditions. The plant is an evergreen and leafless, many-branched, perennial shrub with a straggly growth habit and protruding stems that may reach up to 2 meters. The flowers are normally borne in summer and may vary from a deep red to yellow colour with stamens that characteristically protrude from the petals. A local superstition states that burning wood from this plant will make the wind blow.