January wildflower hikes
Hiking among wildflowers
in the mountains
around Cape Town
This January was a month of fires, smoke, and burn scars. Gave me 800 Cape Peninsula sp.
Observations
Photos / Sounds
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Spotted Blisterbeetle (Ceroctis capensis)Observer
dianastuderDescription
beetle with epaulettes
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Common Rocktomato (Teedia lucida)Observer
dianastuderDescription
always stop to check on this plant. Dangly bits are shrizzled, but there are fresh leaves climbing up in the shelter of the rock cleft
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Leafless Lady (Gladiolus jonquilodorus)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Battled to find plants. 2 or 3 blooming, then we found more with buds.
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Tile Fountainbush (Psoralea imbricata)Observer
dianastuderDescription
very weird leaves = imbricata (like tiles) First flower emerging and another bud lurking
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Tribe AnthiiniObserver
dianastuderDescription
Running fast on the path. Beetle with an earwig tail ?
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Genus DamalisObserver
dianastuderDescription
long narrow body, tangle of spider legs. Also a hump, and a crayfish tail. On Hermas villosa flowers
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Hairy Tinderleaf (Hermas villosa)Observer
dianastuderDescription
was strimmed along the path, so the flowers were hanging down to show the bracts below the flower
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Red Reedpipe (Tritoniopsis triticea)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Fully open it has bright yellow stamens, and a dark lip
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