https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/07/may-and-june-fynbos-rambles.html
before the winter hit us in July, coming direct from Antarctica!
on Protea repens with the bees
Strange. In a fire ravaged landscape, no one wants to EAT those luscious berries. Why does a plant make inedible fruit ?
From these flowers https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/214956943
PS would be eaten by tortoises - so - no tortoises here between suburbia and fire ? Not many obs!
Milkweed family. Climber. Hairy. Fleshy oval leaves. Twirly burgundy bits are petals. White is a deep narrow crown / corona.
Milkweed family.
Climbing in a Searsia.
Usually see just the one plant along this stretch. Mother and baby this year.
leafy liverwort in Ys. Lejeuneaceae ?
Also a fine thready moss ?
crossing the river with Mimetes, swamp daisy and boggy friends
approx location on the way down again
Black beard. Also dark bracts
in the jeep track.
Leaves SO dark purple they are almost black
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