South African wildflowers
 

Hello folks,

I've just returned from a couple weeks in South Africa, and have posted
photos at http://flickr.com/photos/mmmavocado/...7606625479692/

Please have a look if interested, and if those of you more knowledgeable
than I of the identities of some of these plants, I'd surely appreciate
your comments/corrections/completions.

Malcolm Manners

South African wildflowers
 

On Aug 10, 7:14*pm, Malcolm Manners wrote:
Hello folks,

I've just returned from a couple weeks in South Africa, and have posted
photos athttp://flickr.com/photos/mmmavocado/sets/72157606625479692/

Please have a look if interested, and if those of you more knowledgeable
than I of the identities of some of these plants, I'd surely appreciate
your comments/corrections/completions.

Malcolm Manners

You are well aware of how difficult it is to ID a plant from a photo,
and probably the folks on Flikr from SA will do much better than I.
I'm absolutely sure of only one: the one you ID as a Disa and express
surprise at finding blooming in August is in fact Disperis capensis.
Right family, wrong genus. Nice photo. The Oxalis is probably
purpurea, but I bet you already knew that. Same with Ferraria crispa.
Wouldn't even try any of the lithops, altho the area around
Vanrhynsdorp is one of my favorites.

South African wildflowers
 

clay_tiller wrote:
On Aug 10, 7:14 pm, Malcolm Manners wrote:

Hello folks,

I've just returned from a couple weeks in South Africa, and have posted
photos athttp://flickr.com/photos/mmmavocado/sets/72157606625479692/

Please have a look if interested, and if those of you more knowledgeable
than I of the identities of some of these plants, I'd surely appreciate
your comments/corrections/completions.

Malcolm Manners


You are well aware of how difficult it is to ID a plant from a photo,
and probably the folks on Flikr from SA will do much better than I.
I'm absolutely sure of only one: the one you ID as a Disa and express
surprise at finding blooming in August is in fact Disperis capensis.
Right family, wrong genus. Nice photo. The Oxalis is probably
purpurea, but I bet you already knew that. Same with Ferraria crispa.
Wouldn't even try any of the lithops, altho the area around
Vanrhynsdorp is one of my favorites.
Thanks Clay. I'll change the Disa label to Disperis.