WESTERN CAPE AND NAMAQUALAND, SOUTH AFRICA AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2012 PAGE ELEVEN |
Day Seven - 1 September 2012: Nieuwoudtville, Quiver Tree Forest and Doorn River Waterfall |
Codon royenii Boraginaceae |
Arctotis fastuosa Asteraceae |
Dimorphotheca nudicaulis Asteraceae |
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Babiana vanzijliae Iridaceae |
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Albuca concordiana Hyacinthaceae |
Albuca cooperi Asphodelaceae |
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Albuca maxima Asphodelaceae |
Quiver Tree Forest (or Kokerboom Woud) near Nieuwoudtville on Gannabos, a private farm owned by Merwe and Liezel van Wyk. The quiver tree, Aloe dichotoma, grows to some 20' tall and blooms from May to July. It is a somewhat smaller version of the extremely rare Aloe pillansii which grows in the Richtersveld and southern Namibia. It is called quiver tree because the bushmen use it to make quivers. |
Aloe dichotoma Xanthorrhoeaceae (Asphodelaceae) |
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Jamesbrittenia thunbergii Scrophulariaceae |
Euphorbia decussata Euphorbiaceae |
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Unidentified |
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GALLERY INDEX |
EAST CAPE 2008 |
WEST CAPE 2010 |
UNIDENTIFIEDS | PAGE TWELVE OF TWENTY-FIVE |