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±150mm tall inflorescence, speading, 4 flowers, speading sepals, reddish in colour; white petals, lip white with pale yellow lip crest
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±150mm tall plant, heart shaped, flat growing, single green leaf. Branched inflorescence of ±10mm flowers on slender stalks, white with bluish green midvein.
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±150mm inflorescence, ±10 flowers, white with dark purple spots. Growing in a sandstone crevice
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Mat forming succulent. ±7x3mm fleshy leaves. ±17mm bright cerise flowers with yellow center. Growing on sandstone outcrop.
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Succulent, spreading plant growing near sanstone. ±50x6mm leaves, ±30mm flowers, white and pink with yellow centres, whorls of soft fine petals.
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±250mm unbranched plant, Large ±55mm pink flowers, soft easily bruised, turning black
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Albuca setosaObserv.
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Green fleshy plant, ±230mm tall. Leaves narrow. Inflorescence above the leaves. Flowers white ±20mm, white with distinctive green stripe beneath sepals. Growing on a sandstone out crop.
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Seen on KZN Drakensberg mountain slope amongst a group of scattered
Protea roupelliae roupelliae
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Género LatoiaObserv.
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A stunning slug-like caterpillar eating a Protea roupelliae leaf on a mountain slope
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Southern Velvet Worms
Family Peripatopsidae
A black worm like animal, with a white head and black antennae, with a velvety appearance, about 4cm long
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Brown-veined White, Belenois aurota
Small white, brown veined butterflies, with yellow markings on the underside of their wings; flying in a NE direction. About 150 individuals flew over the ridge in this location today. Some stopped briefly to feed and rest as the wind was quite strong.
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Septiembre 29, 2013Descripción
Small red bug
Very small, about 3mm. Would welcome an ID!
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Catarina Asiática (Harmonia axyridis)Observ.
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Septiembre 29, 2013Descripción
Ladybird
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Septiembre 29, 2013Descripción
Tulbaghia montana
Growing in amongst rocks on a dolorite hillside. Flowering inflorescence about 200mm high. Individual flowers about 5 x 3 mm, about 6 on a flowering stem. Whitish green with bright orange centres. Garlic smelling, long thin leaves, about 150mm in length.
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Septiembre 27, 2013Descripción
Senecio oxyriifolius
Round ^nasturtium^ type leaves, grey-green, about 60mm diameter. Tall slender flowering stems, branched, with ^old-paintbrush^ shaped flowers, dull yellow-ochre in colour. Growing amongst rocks on a dolorite hillside.
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Septiembre 27, 2013Descripción
Raphionacme hirsuta
Small, clumped cushion like groups of flowers. No visible leaves at flowering. Bright purple, blunt-star shaped flowers, about 5 x 5mm diameter. Growing on a grassy, rocky dolorite hillside.
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Septiembre 29, 2013Descripción
Pelargonium luridium
Tall large inflorescence, about 600mm high. Individual flowers a salmon pink colour, petals soft and floppy, about 130mm in diameter. Leaves in a basal rosette, very deeply lobed, grey-green in colour, about 250mm in diameter. Growing in grass on a rocky
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Hypoxis argenteaObserv.
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Septiembre 27, 2013Descripción
Hypoxis argentea
Plant about 350mm high. Narrow v-shaped green leaves, sparsely covered in fine longish hairs, about 300mm long. Star shaped yellow flowers, slightly rounded petals, about 20mm in diameter. Growing on a grassy, rocky, dolorite hillside.
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Septiembre 29, 2013Descripción
Hebenstretia dura
Slender plant, dense, crowded leaves along a greenish stem, topped by an inflorescence, about 500mm high. Leaves thin, about 10 x 1.5mm, green. The inflorescence about 75mm long, individual flowers about 15mm, yellow with bright orange blotch at the base
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Septiembre 29, 2013Descripción
Hebenstretia comosa
Slender, sparsely leaved plant with an inflorescence at the growing tip, about 400mm high. Stem reddish in colour, leaves long and thin, about 30 x 2mm in length. Dense inflorescence, flowers creamy, about 10mm and scented. Growing in rocky grassland on t
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Septiembre 29, 2013Descripción
Eriosema kraussianum
Small plant about 150mm tall. Found amongst rocks on a dolorite ridge. Leaflets green, about 30 x 7mm. Flower inflorescences about 35mm tall, pale yellow flowers about 7mm in size.
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Septiembre 29, 2013Descripción
Dierama latifolium
Found in open grassland on the top of a dolorite ridge. Plant about 800mm tall. Leaves about 700mm x 3mm. Flowers deep wine red with silvery bracts, about 25mm long.
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Margarita Semilla de Hueso (Osteospermum moniliferum)Observ.
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Septiembre 29, 2013Descripción
Chrysanthemoides monilifera
Small scrubby bush about 50cm high. Leathery green, obovate, toothed leaves. Daisy type, yellow flowers and small fruits, green ripening to shiny black.
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Septiembre 29, 2013Descripción
Argyrolobium marginatum
Small creeping plant. Destinctive ^silver^ margin on leaf edges. Flowers yellow, in small clusters, each about 12mm in size. Legume type pods, hairy. In grass amongst a stony dolorite ridge.
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Disa bauriiObserv.
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Disa baurii
Ground orchid, only two other buds apart from the open flower. No leaves present. Purplish blue in colour with fringed lower edge. Found on a damp grassy, mountain slope. Flower size: about 25mm, stem about 250mm high.
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Leucosidea sericea
Shrubby tree, about 3m high on a dolorite hillside. Flower inflorescence a terminal spike about 75mm long, bearing small yellowish-green flowers with long stamens.
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Flores del Tesoro (Género Gazania)Observ.
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Gazania krebsiana
Bright yellow flowerheads about 60mm across. Long thin shiny dark green leaves, felted on underside, present at flowering. Found in burnt off grass on a dolorite ridge.
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Apodolirion buchananii
Single, leafless flowers in grass. Sweet scented. Flower petals about 30mm across on ^stalk-like^ tube about 45mm high from the ground.
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Cyrtanthus tuckii
Flowering in recently burnt grassland. No leaves at the time of flowering. Flowers about 32mm long, red, green tipped. On a dolorite ridge, on an east facing slope.