Albuca cooperi is a bulbous perennial, between 35-60cm, with the outer bulb tunics decaying into fibers at the top, and 2 or 3 slender, channeled leaves that clasp the stem in the lower part and are warty towards the base. It bears a raceme of fragrant, nodding yellow flowers with broad green bands. 15-25mm long; the inner petals have a hanging flap at the tip and the outer stamens are sterile.
Albuca cooperi flowers mainly from September to November.
Habitat:
Albuca cooperi can be found in stony, mostly sandy slopes and flats, sometimes limestone, from Namaqualand to the Eastern Cape.
Dainty Soldier-in-a-box, Albuca cooperi, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Albuca cooperi is a bulbous perennial, between 35-60cm, with the outer bulb tunics decaying into fibers at the top, and 2 or 3 slender, channeled leaves that clasp the stem in the lower part and are warty towards the base. It bears a raceme of fragrant, nodding yellow flowers with broad green bands. 15-25mm long; the inner petals have a hanging flap at the tip and the outer stamens are sterile.
Albuca cooperi flowers mainly from September to November.
Habitat:
Albuca cooperi can be found in stony, mostly sandy slopes and flats, sometimes limestone, from Namaqualand to the Eastern Cape.
Dainty Soldier-in-a-box, Albuca cooperi, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 185 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Albuca cooperi is a bulbous perennial, between 35-60cm, with the outer bulb tunics decaying into fibers at the top, and 2 or 3 slender, channeled leaves that clasp the stem in the lower part and are warty towards the base. It bears a raceme of fragrant, nodding yellow flowers with broad green bands. 15-25mm long; the inner petals have a hanging flap at the tip and the outer stamens are sterile.
Albuca cooperi flowers mainly from September to November.
Habitat:
Albuca cooperi can be found in stony, mostly sandy slopes and flats, sometimes limestone, from Namaqualand to the Eastern Cape.
Dainty Soldier-in-a-box, Albuca cooperi, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 185 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Albuca cooperi is a bulbous perennial, between 35-60cm, with the outer bulb tunics decaying into fibers at the top, and 2 or 3 slender, channeled leaves that clasp the stem in the lower part and are warty towards the base. It bears a raceme of fragrant, nodding yellow flowers with broad green bands. 15-25mm long; the inner petals have a hanging flap at the tip and the outer stamens are sterile.
Albuca cooperi flowers mainly from September to November.
Habitat:
Albuca cooperi can be found in stony, mostly sandy slopes and flats, sometimes limestone, from Namaqualand to the Eastern Cape.
Dainty Soldier-in-a-box, Albuca cooperi, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 185 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Albuca cooperi is a bulbous perennial, between 35-60cm, with the outer bulb tunics decaying into fibers at the top, and 2 or 3 slender, channeled leaves that clasp the stem in the lower part and are warty towards the base. It bears a raceme of fragrant, nodding yellow flowers with broad green bands. 15-25mm long; the inner petals have a hanging flap at the tip and the outer stamens are sterile.
Albuca cooperi flowers mainly from September to November.
Habitat:
Albuca cooperi can be found in stony, mostly sandy slopes and flats, sometimes limestone, from Namaqualand to the Eastern Cape.
Dainty Soldier-in-a-box, Albuca cooperi, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 185 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Albuca cooperi is a bulbous perennial, between 35-60cm, with the outer bulb tunics decaying into fibers at the top, and 2 or 3 slender, channeled leaves that clasp the stem in the lower part and are warty towards the base. It bears a raceme of fragrant, nodding yellow flowers with broad green bands. 15-25mm long; the inner petals have a hanging flap at the tip and the outer stamens are sterile.
Albuca cooperi flowers mainly from September to November.
Habitat:
Albuca cooperi can be found in stony, mostly sandy slopes and flats, sometimes limestone, from Namaqualand to the Eastern Cape.
Dainty Soldier-in-a-box, Albuca cooperi, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Gerbera crocea is a tufted perennial to 40cm with a rosette of petiolate, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves that are hairless to sparsely cobwebby beneath, their margins lightly toothed and rolled under.
Heads 12-23 mm long, 20-35 mm wide. Ray florets are very variable in color: pink or white, sometimes mauve, crimson, maroon, cream, reddish, magenta, purplish or yellowish-purple, in other cases white above, red-maroon to brownish-coppery below, or pinkish to mauve above, darker below. Disc florets reported as yellow or purple, tube 4-8 mm long, limbs 2.5-3.5 mm long.
Gerbera crocea flowers throughout the year but mainly from October to January.
Habitat:
Gerbera crocea can be found from the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to around Montagu and Bredasdorp -and as far northwards – as around Clanwilliam.
They are mainly found on hills and slopes, in stony and rocky, sandy soil, often on recently burnt ground, rarely in moist habitats; quite common.
Dailstee, Gerbera crocea, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Gerbera crocea is a tufted perennial to 40cm with a rosette of petiolate, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves that are hairless to sparsely cobwebby beneath, their margins lightly toothed and rolled under.
Heads 12-23 mm long, 20-35 mm wide. Ray florets are very variable in color: pink or white, sometimes mauve, crimson, maroon, cream, reddish, magenta, purplish or yellowish-purple, in other cases white above, red-maroon to brownish-coppery below, or pinkish to mauve above, darker below. Disc florets reported as yellow or purple, tube 4-8 mm long, limbs 2.5-3.5 mm long.
Gerbera crocea flowers throughout the year but mainly from October to January.
Habitat:
Gerbera crocea can be found from the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to around Montagu and Bredasdorp -and as far northwards – as around Clanwilliam.
They are mainly found on hills and slopes, in stony and rocky, sandy soil, often on recently burnt ground, rarely in moist habitats; quite common.
Dailstee, Gerbera crocea, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Gerbera crocea is a tufted perennial to 40cm with a rosette of petiolate, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves that are hairless to sparsely cobwebby beneath, their margins lightly toothed and rolled under.
Heads 12-23 mm long, 20-35 mm wide. Ray florets are very variable in color: pink or white, sometimes mauve, crimson, maroon, cream, reddish, magenta, purplish or yellowish-purple, in other cases white above, red-maroon to brownish-coppery below, or pinkish to mauve above, darker below. Disc florets reported as yellow or purple, tube 4-8 mm long, limbs 2.5-3.5 mm long.
Gerbera crocea flowers throughout the year but mainly from October to January.
Habitat:
Gerbera crocea can be found from the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to around Montagu and Bredasdorp -and as far northwards – as around Clanwilliam.
They are mainly found on hills and slopes, in stony and rocky, sandy soil, often on recently burnt ground, rarely in moist habitats; quite common.
Dailstee, Gerbera crocea, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Gerbera crocea is a tufted perennial to 40cm with a rosette of petiolate, lance-shaped to elliptical leaves that are hairless to sparsely cobwebby beneath, their margins lightly toothed and rolled under.
Heads 12-23 mm long, 20-35 mm wide. Ray florets are very variable in color: pink or white, sometimes mauve, crimson, maroon, cream, reddish, magenta, purplish or yellowish-purple, in other cases white above, red-maroon to brownish-coppery below, or pinkish to mauve above, darker below. Disc florets reported as yellow or purple, tube 4-8 mm long, limbs 2.5-3.5 mm long.
Gerbera crocea flowers throughout the year but mainly from October to January.
Habitat:
Gerbera crocea can be found from the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to around Montagu and Bredasdorp -and as far northwards – as around Clanwilliam.
They are mainly found on hills and slopes, in stony and rocky, sandy soil, often on recently burnt ground, rarely in moist habitats; quite common.
Dailstee, Gerbera crocea, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Also known as Blue Sage, Wild Sage, Wilde Salie and Bloublomsalie.
Description:
Salvia africana is a decorative, aromatic shrub with medicinal properties. Keep it neat and pruned and it will reward you with flowers almost all year round.
It is a soft, greyish, hairy, much-branched shrub up to 2 m tall. The leaves are greenish on the upper surface, covered with grey hairs and dotted with glands on the lower surface, strongly aromatic, simple, opposite, obovate (egg-shaped but broader towards the tip) and sometimes toothed.
Flowers are produced from midwinter to midsummer (June to January) peaking in spring to early summer (Aug.-Dec.), in whorls, crowded at the tips of the stems. The corolla is two-lipped, the lips roughly equal in length; the upper lip is blue to bluish-purple or pinkish and hooded; the lower one is usually white in the center with darker spots, and is turned down at the edge, giving the impression of a gaping mouth.
The style is long, slender and curved, and sticks out beyond the hooded upper lip. The stamens are strangely shaped. The filament of each stamen is attached to one side of the lower part of the corolla tube. A cross-piece that is hinged so that it can move up and down is attached at the top end of the filament. This cross-piece carries the anther at one end and a ‘pedal’ at the other.
The ‘pedal’ is in fact the other half of the anther, transformed into a structure that a visiting bee has to press on as it probes for nectar, causing the hinged anther to move down and deposit pollen on the back of the bee. The calyx is funnel-shaped, dotted with glands and covered in long, silky grey hairs, green with pinkish purple tips. It persists long after the flower has dropped and enlarges at the fruiting stage, becoming thin, light and papery by the time the seeds are mature.
The fruit consists of four 1-seeded, small, rounded nutlets that are formed at the base of the flower, inside the calyx. They remain attached at the base of the calyx after the flower drops, falling out when mature.
Habitat:
Salvia africana is found on sandy slopes and flats from Namaqualand in the Northern Cape to the Cape Peninsula and Caledon in the Western Cape. It grows in fynbos.
Salvia africana is pollinated by bees and the flower is adapted to assist in pollination-see the description above to recap the structure of the flower. The bottom petal is a platform for the bee to land on. As it probes for nectar, it presses against the ‘pedal’, which causes the hinged anthers to move down and deposit pollen on the back of the bee, while the curved stigma collects pollen that it has already picked up from other flowers it visited previously.
Uses:
Many African salvias, including Salvia africana have long been used by the people of Africa as medicinal plants and to flavor food. A remedy made by mixing S. africana tea with Epsom salts and lemon juice was used by the early settlers in South Africa to treat stomach troubles, including colic, diarrhea, flatulence, heartburn, gripes and indigestion.
It was also given to cows after calving to help in the expulsion of the placenta. The Khoisan people used S. africana to treat coughs, colds and women’s ailments. The leaves, mixed with those of Ballota africana (kattekruie) were also used to treat fevers and measles.
Margaret Roberts recipe for sage tea is to pour one cup of boiling water over one tablespoon of fresh leaves, allow to draw for 5 minutes, sweeten with honey and add a slice of lemon for taste. To ease a cough, including whooping cough, sip a little frequently. To treat colds, flu and chest ailments and for painful or excessive menstruation, drink half a cup four times a day.
The tea is also an excellent gargle for sore throats and night coughing. Even chewing a fresh leaf will ease a sore throat and help restore a lost voice. This tea can also be used externally as a mildly antiseptic wash. A stronger brew using one tablespoon of fresh leaves chopped into one tablespoon of honey and two tablespoons of lemon juice makes a soothing cough mixture for a persistent cough: take one tablespoon every half hour until the cough eases.
African Blue Sage, Salvia africana, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 135 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Also known as Blue Sage, Wild Sage, Wilde Salie and Bloublomsalie.
Description:
Salvia africana is a decorative, aromatic shrub with medicinal properties. Keep it neat and pruned and it will reward you with flowers almost all year round.
It is a soft, greyish, hairy, much-branched shrub up to 2 m tall. The leaves are greenish on the upper surface, covered with grey hairs and dotted with glands on the lower surface, strongly aromatic, simple, opposite, obovate (egg-shaped but broader towards the tip) and sometimes toothed.
Flowers are produced from midwinter to midsummer (June to January) peaking in spring to early summer (Aug.-Dec.), in whorls, crowded at the tips of the stems. The corolla is two-lipped, the lips roughly equal in length; the upper lip is blue to bluish-purple or pinkish and hooded; the lower one is usually white in the center with darker spots, and is turned down at the edge, giving the impression of a gaping mouth.
The style is long, slender and curved, and sticks out beyond the hooded upper lip. The stamens are strangely shaped. The filament of each stamen is attached to one side of the lower part of the corolla tube. A cross-piece that is hinged so that it can move up and down is attached at the top end of the filament. This cross-piece carries the anther at one end and a ‘pedal’ at the other.
The ‘pedal’ is in fact the other half of the anther, transformed into a structure that a visiting bee has to press on as it probes for nectar, causing the hinged anther to move down and deposit pollen on the back of the bee. The calyx is funnel-shaped, dotted with glands and covered in long, silky grey hairs, green with pinkish purple tips. It persists long after the flower has dropped and enlarges at the fruiting stage, becoming thin, light and papery by the time the seeds are mature.
The fruit consists of four 1-seeded, small, rounded nutlets that are formed at the base of the flower, inside the calyx. They remain attached at the base of the calyx after the flower drops, falling out when mature.
Habitat:
Salvia africana is found on sandy slopes and flats from Namaqualand in the Northern Cape to the Cape Peninsula and Caledon in the Western Cape. It grows in fynbos.
Salvia africana is pollinated by bees and the flower is adapted to assist in pollination-see the description above to recap the structure of the flower. The bottom petal is a platform for the bee to land on. As it probes for nectar, it presses against the ‘pedal’, which causes the hinged anthers to move down and deposit pollen on the back of the bee, while the curved stigma collects pollen that it has already picked up from other flowers it visited previously.
Uses:
Many African salvias, including Salvia africana have long been used by the people of Africa as medicinal plants and to flavor food. A remedy made by mixing S. africana tea with Epsom salts and lemon juice was used by the early settlers in South Africa to treat stomach troubles, including colic, diarrhea, flatulence, heartburn, gripes and indigestion.
It was also given to cows after calving to help in the expulsion of the placenta. The Khoisan people used S. africana to treat coughs, colds and women’s ailments. The leaves, mixed with those of Ballota africana (kattekruie) were also used to treat fevers and measles.
Margaret Roberts recipe for sage tea is to pour one cup of boiling water over one tablespoon of fresh leaves, allow to draw for 5 minutes, sweeten with honey and add a slice of lemon for taste. To ease a cough, including whooping cough, sip a little frequently. To treat colds, flu and chest ailments and for painful or excessive menstruation, drink half a cup four times a day.
The tea is also an excellent gargle for sore throats and night coughing. Even chewing a fresh leaf will ease a sore throat and help restore a lost voice. This tea can also be used externally as a mildly antiseptic wash. A stronger brew using one tablespoon of fresh leaves chopped into one tablespoon of honey and two tablespoons of lemon juice makes a soothing cough mixture for a persistent cough: take one tablespoon every half hour until the cough eases.
African Blue Sage, Salvia africana, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 90 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Also known as Blue Sage, Wild Sage, Wilde Salie and Bloublomsalie.
Description:
Salvia africana is a decorative, aromatic shrub with medicinal properties. Keep it neat and pruned and it will reward you with flowers almost all year round.
It is a soft, greyish, hairy, much-branched shrub up to 2 m tall. The leaves are greenish on the upper surface, covered with grey hairs and dotted with glands on the lower surface, strongly aromatic, simple, opposite, obovate (egg-shaped but broader towards the tip) and sometimes toothed.
Flowers are produced from midwinter to midsummer (June to January) peaking in spring to early summer (Aug.-Dec.), in whorls, crowded at the tips of the stems. The corolla is two-lipped, the lips roughly equal in length; the upper lip is blue to bluish-purple or pinkish and hooded; the lower one is usually white in the center with darker spots, and is turned down at the edge, giving the impression of a gaping mouth.
The style is long, slender and curved, and sticks out beyond the hooded upper lip. The stamens are strangely shaped. The filament of each stamen is attached to one side of the lower part of the corolla tube. A cross-piece that is hinged so that it can move up and down is attached at the top end of the filament. This cross-piece carries the anther at one end and a ‘pedal’ at the other.
The ‘pedal’ is in fact the other half of the anther, transformed into a structure that a visiting bee has to press on as it probes for nectar, causing the hinged anther to move down and deposit pollen on the back of the bee. The calyx is funnel-shaped, dotted with glands and covered in long, silky grey hairs, green with pinkish purple tips. It persists long after the flower has dropped and enlarges at the fruiting stage, becoming thin, light and papery by the time the seeds are mature.
The fruit consists of four 1-seeded, small, rounded nutlets that are formed at the base of the flower, inside the calyx. They remain attached at the base of the calyx after the flower drops, falling out when mature.
Habitat:
Salvia africana is found on sandy slopes and flats from Namaqualand in the Northern Cape to the Cape Peninsula and Caledon in the Western Cape. It grows in fynbos.
Salvia africana is pollinated by bees and the flower is adapted to assist in pollination-see the description above to recap the structure of the flower. The bottom petal is a platform for the bee to land on. As it probes for nectar, it presses against the ‘pedal’, which causes the hinged anthers to move down and deposit pollen on the back of the bee, while the curved stigma collects pollen that it has already picked up from other flowers it visited previously.
Uses:
Many African salvias, including Salvia africana have long been used by the people of Africa as medicinal plants and to flavor food. A remedy made by mixing S. africana tea with Epsom salts and lemon juice was used by the early settlers in South Africa to treat stomach troubles, including colic, diarrhea, flatulence, heartburn, gripes and indigestion.
It was also given to cows after calving to help in the expulsion of the placenta. The Khoisan people used S. africana to treat coughs, colds and women’s ailments. The leaves, mixed with those of Ballota africana (kattekruie) were also used to treat fevers and measles.
Margaret Roberts recipe for sage tea is to pour one cup of boiling water over one tablespoon of fresh leaves, allow to draw for 5 minutes, sweeten with honey and add a slice of lemon for taste. To ease a cough, including whooping cough, sip a little frequently. To treat colds, flu and chest ailments and for painful or excessive menstruation, drink half a cup four times a day.
The tea is also an excellent gargle for sore throats and night coughing. Even chewing a fresh leaf will ease a sore throat and help restore a lost voice. This tea can also be used externally as a mildly antiseptic wash. A stronger brew using one tablespoon of fresh leaves chopped into one tablespoon of honey and two tablespoons of lemon juice makes a soothing cough mixture for a persistent cough: take one tablespoon every half hour until the cough eases.
African Blue Sage, Salvia africana, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
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Watsonia barbonica, a magnificent bulbous plant with tall spikes of rose-pink, trumpet-shaped flowers makes a picturesque display, flowering for up to 4 or 5 weeks – a beautiful garden subject that needs little maintenance.
Watsonia barbonica is a tender to half-hardy herbaceous perennial that grows up to 2 m high. It is deciduous, growing during autumn-winter-spring and dying back after flowering in spring to early summer and remaining dormant during summer. The rootstock is a corm, 30-40 mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics. It bears upright fans of 5-6, up to 8 glossy, broad, sword-shaped leaves, 20-40 mm wide, that are one to two thirds as long as the flower spike. The margins of the leaves are without color (hyaline) and moderately thickened.
The flowering stem usually bears two or more small bracts in the upper part, is usually branched and reaches up to 2 m in height. The flower is a spike, the main axis bearing up to 20 flowers and the branching (lateral) spikes up to 10 flowers. The flowers are large and showy, pale to deep pink to light purple, and faintly fragrant. The tepals have a darker midline, and a white streak at the base and very occasionally a plant is found where the whole tepal is white.
Flowering time is during late spring to early summer-from October to early December and sometimes into January. The fruit is an oblong capsule, more or less woody, sometimes widening at the apex, splitting to release winged seeds, 8-12 x 2.5 mm.
Habitat:
Watsonia borbonica grows in the extreme southwest of the Western Cape, from Tulbagh southwards to the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to Bredasdorp. Its habitat is mainly rocky sandstone slopes or well-drained slopes of clay and granite, and sometimes in deep sandy soil at the foot of the mountains.
It is particularly abundant after fires and is known at some sites to only flower in the first and second years following a fire. Abundant flowering after a fire is followed by the production of masses of seed, which increases the number of successful seedlings. In areas that have burnt, Watsonia borbonica provides a major source of food for nectar-feeding insects and birds, and for the various rodents that eat the seed produced.
Watsonia borbonica is pollinated by large, solitary bees, mainly of the family Apidae: subfamily Anthophorinae. The bees visit the flowers in the early morning, seeking nectar and collecting pollen from flowers that have just opened. The styles of the flowers only unfurl later on their second day and become receptive, and at the same time the nectar levels rise. The bees visiting for the nectar transfer some of the pollen collected earlier from the freshly opened flowers. By noon there is no more nectar or pollen and the bees move away. Goldlatt 1989 and John Manning.
Sunbirds have been seen to visit the flowers as well, but soon lose interest, probably because only a small amount of nectar is produced. Long- tongued flies also visit and may play a role in pollination ( John Manning (pers.comm.)
Pink Watsonia, Watsonia borbonica, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Watsonia barbonica, a magnificent bulbous plant with tall spikes of rose-pink, trumpet-shaped flowers makes a picturesque display, flowering for up to 4 or 5 weeks – a beautiful garden subject that needs little maintenance.
Watsonia barbonica is a tender to half-hardy herbaceous perennial that grows up to 2 m high. It is deciduous, growing during autumn-winter-spring and dying back after flowering in spring to early summer and remaining dormant during summer. The rootstock is a corm, 30-40 mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics. It bears upright fans of 5-6, up to 8 glossy, broad, sword-shaped leaves, 20-40 mm wide, that are one to two thirds as long as the flower spike. The margins of the leaves are without color (hyaline) and moderately thickened.
The flowering stem usually bears two or more small bracts in the upper part, is usually branched and reaches up to 2 m in height. The flower is a spike, the main axis bearing up to 20 flowers and the branching (lateral) spikes up to 10 flowers. The flowers are large and showy, pale to deep pink to light purple, and faintly fragrant. The tepals have a darker midline, and a white streak at the base and very occasionally a plant is found where the whole tepal is white.
Flowering time is during late spring to early summer-from October to early December and sometimes into January. The fruit is an oblong capsule, more or less woody, sometimes widening at the apex, splitting to release winged seeds, 8-12 x 2.5 mm.
Habitat:
Watsonia borbonica grows in the extreme southwest of the Western Cape, from Tulbagh southwards to the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to Bredasdorp. Its habitat is mainly rocky sandstone slopes or well-drained slopes of clay and granite, and sometimes in deep sandy soil at the foot of the mountains.
It is particularly abundant after fires and is known at some sites to only flower in the first and second years following a fire. Abundant flowering after a fire is followed by the production of masses of seed, which increases the number of successful seedlings. In areas that have burnt, Watsonia borbonica provides a major source of food for nectar-feeding insects and birds, and for the various rodents that eat the seed produced.
Watsonia borbonica is pollinated by large, solitary bees, mainly of the family Apidae: subfamily Anthophorinae. The bees visit the flowers in the early morning, seeking nectar and collecting pollen from flowers that have just opened. The styles of the flowers only unfurl later on their second day and become receptive, and at the same time the nectar levels rise. The bees visiting for the nectar transfer some of the pollen collected earlier from the freshly opened flowers. By noon there is no more nectar or pollen and the bees move away. Goldlatt 1989 and John Manning.
Sunbirds have been seen to visit the flowers as well, but soon lose interest, probably because only a small amount of nectar is produced. Long- tongued flies also visit and may play a role in pollination ( John Manning (pers.comm.)
Pink Watsonia, Watsonia borbonica, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 40 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Watsonia barbonica, a magnificent bulbous plant with tall spikes of rose-pink, trumpet-shaped flowers makes a picturesque display, flowering for up to 4 or 5 weeks – a beautiful garden subject that needs little maintenance.
Watsonia barbonica is a tender to half-hardy herbaceous perennial that grows up to 2 m high. It is deciduous, growing during autumn-winter-spring and dying back after flowering in spring to early summer and remaining dormant during summer. The rootstock is a corm, 30-40 mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics. It bears upright fans of 5-6, up to 8 glossy, broad, sword-shaped leaves, 20-40 mm wide, that are one to two thirds as long as the flower spike. The margins of the leaves are without color (hyaline) and moderately thickened.
The flowering stem usually bears two or more small bracts in the upper part, is usually branched and reaches up to 2 m in height. The flower is a spike, the main axis bearing up to 20 flowers and the branching (lateral) spikes up to 10 flowers. The flowers are large and showy, pale to deep pink to light purple, and faintly fragrant. The tepals have a darker midline, and a white streak at the base and very occasionally a plant is found where the whole tepal is white.
Flowering time is during late spring to early summer-from October to early December and sometimes into January. The fruit is an oblong capsule, more or less woody, sometimes widening at the apex, splitting to release winged seeds, 8-12 x 2.5 mm.
Habitat:
Watsonia borbonica grows in the extreme southwest of the Western Cape, from Tulbagh southwards to the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to Bredasdorp. Its habitat is mainly rocky sandstone slopes or well-drained slopes of clay and granite, and sometimes in deep sandy soil at the foot of the mountains.
It is particularly abundant after fires and is known at some sites to only flower in the first and second years following a fire. Abundant flowering after a fire is followed by the production of masses of seed, which increases the number of successful seedlings. In areas that have burnt, Watsonia borbonica provides a major source of food for nectar-feeding insects and birds, and for the various rodents that eat the seed produced.
Watsonia borbonica is pollinated by large, solitary bees, mainly of the family Apidae: subfamily Anthophorinae. The bees visit the flowers in the early morning, seeking nectar and collecting pollen from flowers that have just opened. The styles of the flowers only unfurl later on their second day and become receptive, and at the same time the nectar levels rise. The bees visiting for the nectar transfer some of the pollen collected earlier from the freshly opened flowers. By noon there is no more nectar or pollen and the bees move away. Goldlatt 1989 and John Manning.
Sunbirds have been seen to visit the flowers as well, but soon lose interest, probably because only a small amount of nectar is produced. Long- tongued flies also visit and may play a role in pollination ( John Manning (pers.comm.)
Pink Watsonia, Watsonia borbonica, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 40 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Watsonia barbonica, a magnificent bulbous plant with tall spikes of rose-pink, trumpet-shaped flowers makes a picturesque display, flowering for up to 4 or 5 weeks – a beautiful garden subject that needs little maintenance.
Watsonia barbonica is a tender to half-hardy herbaceous perennial that grows up to 2 m high. It is deciduous, growing during autumn-winter-spring and dying back after flowering in spring to early summer and remaining dormant during summer. The rootstock is a corm, 30-40 mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics. It bears upright fans of 5-6, up to 8 glossy, broad, sword-shaped leaves, 20-40 mm wide, that are one to two thirds as long as the flower spike. The margins of the leaves are without color (hyaline) and moderately thickened.
The flowering stem usually bears two or more small bracts in the upper part, is usually branched and reaches up to 2 m in height. The flower is a spike, the main axis bearing up to 20 flowers and the branching (lateral) spikes up to 10 flowers. The flowers are large and showy, pale to deep pink to light purple, and faintly fragrant. The tepals have a darker midline, and a white streak at the base and very occasionally a plant is found where the whole tepal is white.
Flowering time is during late spring to early summer-from October to early December and sometimes into January. The fruit is an oblong capsule, more or less woody, sometimes widening at the apex, splitting to release winged seeds, 8-12 x 2.5 mm.
Habitat:
Watsonia borbonica grows in the extreme southwest of the Western Cape, from Tulbagh southwards to the Cape Peninsula and eastwards to Bredasdorp. Its habitat is mainly rocky sandstone slopes or well-drained slopes of clay and granite, and sometimes in deep sandy soil at the foot of the mountains.
It is particularly abundant after fires and is known at some sites to only flower in the first and second years following a fire. Abundant flowering after a fire is followed by the production of masses of seed, which increases the number of successful seedlings. In areas that have burnt, Watsonia borbonica provides a major source of food for nectar-feeding insects and birds, and for the various rodents that eat the seed produced.
Watsonia borbonica is pollinated by large, solitary bees, mainly of the family Apidae: subfamily Anthophorinae. The bees visit the flowers in the early morning, seeking nectar and collecting pollen from flowers that have just opened. The styles of the flowers only unfurl later on their second day and become receptive, and at the same time the nectar levels rise. The bees visiting for the nectar transfer some of the pollen collected earlier from the freshly opened flowers. By noon there is no more nectar or pollen and the bees move away. Goldlatt 1989 and John Manning.
Sunbirds have been seen to visit the flowers as well, but soon lose interest, probably because only a small amount of nectar is produced. Long- tongued flies also visit and may play a role in pollination ( John Manning (pers.comm.)
Pink Watsonia, Watsonia borbonica, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Watsonia fourcadei is found in the Eastern and Western Cape and has pretty salmon pink flowers. It grows +- 90 to 180cm tall.
All are perennial herbs growing from corms 30 to 40mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics; producing attractive upright lance shaped leaves and erect spikes of showy flowers. In the wild the plants flower particularly profusely in the first and second years following a fire; and in recently burnt areas provide a major source of food for nectar-feeding birds, insects and rodents.
Habitat:
Watsonia fourcadei is a genus of plants in the Iris family and endemic to South Africa; meaning originally, they could not be found growing wild anywhere else in the world. Having said this, watsonia species were introduced as garden ornamentals to Australia in the mid-19th century and were widely grown by the 1940s. Today, in the South-West of Western Australia, six species have escaped from garden cultivation and become naturalized along rivers, wetlands and seasonally wet ground. In places Watsonias have displaced native understory flora and high concentrations of them create a fire hazard in summer.
There are about 52 Watsonia species; most of which are concentrated in the south-western parts of the Western Cape, but also extending north into Namaqualand and east into the summer rainfall areas of southern KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mpumalanga and Swaziland. Most are deciduous fynbos plants which are adapted to a Mediterranean-type climate with hot, dry summers and wet winters; and the majority of the species occur in mountainous regions, with a couple occurring in sandy flats and marshy areas. Those which occur in the summer rainfall regions are evergreen.
Mountain Watsonia, Watsonia fourcadei, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/160 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Watsonia fourcadei is found in the Eastern and Western Cape and has pretty salmon pink flowers. It grows +- 90 to 180cm tall.
All are perennial herbs growing from corms 30 to 40mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics; producing attractive upright lance shaped leaves and erect spikes of showy flowers. In the wild the plants flower particularly profusely in the first and second years following a fire; and in recently burnt areas provide a major source of food for nectar-feeding birds, insects and rodents.
Habitat:
Watsonia fourcadei is a genus of plants in the Iris family and endemic to South Africa; meaning originally, they could not be found growing wild anywhere else in the world. Having said this, watsonia species were introduced as garden ornamentals to Australia in the mid-19th century and were widely grown by the 1940s. Today, in the South-West of Western Australia, six species have escaped from garden cultivation and become naturalized along rivers, wetlands and seasonally wet ground. In places Watsonias have displaced native understory flora and high concentrations of them create a fire hazard in summer.
There are about 52 Watsonia species; most of which are concentrated in the south-western parts of the Western Cape, but also extending north into Namaqualand and east into the summer rainfall areas of southern KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mpumalanga and Swaziland. Most are deciduous fynbos plants which are adapted to a Mediterranean-type climate with hot, dry summers and wet winters; and the majority of the species occur in mountainous regions, with a couple occurring in sandy flats and marshy areas. Those which occur in the summer rainfall regions are evergreen.
Mountain Watsonia, Watsonia fourcadei, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/160 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Watsonia fourcadei is found in the Eastern and Western Cape and has pretty salmon pink flowers. It grows +- 90 to 180cm tall.
All are perennial herbs growing from corms 30 to 40mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics; producing attractive upright lance shaped leaves and erect spikes of showy flowers. In the wild the plants flower particularly profusely in the first and second years following a fire; and in recently burnt areas provide a major source of food for nectar-feeding birds, insects and rodents.
Habitat:
Watsonia fourcadei is a genus of plants in the Iris family and endemic to South Africa; meaning originally, they could not be found growing wild anywhere else in the world. Having said this, watsonia species were introduced as garden ornamentals to Australia in the mid-19th century and were widely grown by the 1940s. Today, in the South-West of Western Australia, six species have escaped from garden cultivation and become naturalized along rivers, wetlands and seasonally wet ground. In places Watsonias have displaced native understory flora and high concentrations of them create a fire hazard in summer.
There are about 52 Watsonia species; most of which are concentrated in the south-western parts of the Western Cape, but also extending north into Namaqualand and east into the summer rainfall areas of southern KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mpumalanga and Swaziland. Most are deciduous fynbos plants which are adapted to a Mediterranean-type climate with hot, dry summers and wet winters; and the majority of the species occur in mountainous regions, with a couple occurring in sandy flats and marshy areas. Those which occur in the summer rainfall regions are evergreen.
Mountain Watsonia, Watsonia fourcadei, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Watsonia fourcadei is found in the Eastern and Western Cape and has pretty salmon pink flowers. It grows +- 90 to 180cm tall.
All are perennial herbs growing from corms 30 to 40mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics; producing attractive upright lance shaped leaves and erect spikes of showy flowers. In the wild the plants flower particularly profusely in the first and second years following a fire; and in recently burnt areas provide a major source of food for nectar-feeding birds, insects and rodents.
Habitat:
Watsonia fourcadei is a genus of plants in the Iris family and endemic to South Africa; meaning originally, they could not be found growing wild anywhere else in the world. Having said this, watsonia species were introduced as garden ornamentals to Australia in the mid-19th century and were widely grown by the 1940s. Today, in the South-West of Western Australia, six species have escaped from garden cultivation and become naturalized along rivers, wetlands and seasonally wet ground. In places Watsonias have displaced native understory flora and high concentrations of them create a fire hazard in summer.
There are about 52 Watsonia species; most of which are concentrated in the south-western parts of the Western Cape, but also extending north into Namaqualand and east into the summer rainfall areas of southern KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mpumalanga and Swaziland. Most are deciduous fynbos plants which are adapted to a Mediterranean-type climate with hot, dry summers and wet winters; and the majority of the species occur in mountainous regions, with a couple occurring in sandy flats and marshy areas. Those which occur in the summer rainfall regions are evergreen.
Mountain Watsonia, Watsonia fourcadei, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
Thank you with all my heart for stopping by and having a look at my photo.
If you like what you see please press the like button, share and leave a comment. I read all my comments, and try to answer them all.
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Watsonia fourcadei is found in the Eastern and Western Cape and has pretty salmon pink flowers. It grows +- 90 to 180cm tall.
All are perennial herbs growing from corms 30 to 40mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics; producing attractive upright lance shaped leaves and erect spikes of showy flowers. In the wild the plants flower particularly profusely in the first and second years following a fire; and in recently burnt areas provide a major source of food for nectar-feeding birds, insects and rodents.
Habitat:
Watsonia fourcadei is a genus of plants in the Iris family and endemic to South Africa; meaning originally, they could not be found growing wild anywhere else in the world. Having said this, watsonia species were introduced as garden ornamentals to Australia in the mid-19th century and were widely grown by the 1940s. Today, in the South-West of Western Australia, six species have escaped from garden cultivation and become naturalized along rivers, wetlands and seasonally wet ground. In places Watsonias have displaced native understory flora and high concentrations of them create a fire hazard in summer.
There are about 52 Watsonia species; most of which are concentrated in the south-western parts of the Western Cape, but also extending north into Namaqualand and east into the summer rainfall areas of southern KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mpumalanga and Swaziland. Most are deciduous fynbos plants which are adapted to a Mediterranean-type climate with hot, dry summers and wet winters; and the majority of the species occur in mountainous regions, with a couple occurring in sandy flats and marshy areas. Those which occur in the summer rainfall regions are evergreen.
Mountain Watsonia, Watsonia fourcadei, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 50 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Watsonia fourcadei is found in the Eastern and Western Cape and has pretty salmon pink flowers. It grows +- 90 to 180cm tall.
All are perennial herbs growing from corms 30 to 40mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics; producing attractive upright lance shaped leaves and erect spikes of showy flowers. In the wild the plants flower particularly profusely in the first and second years following a fire; and in recently burnt areas provide a major source of food for nectar-feeding birds, insects and rodents.
Habitat:
Watsonia fourcadei is a genus of plants in the Iris family and endemic to South Africa; meaning originally, they could not be found growing wild anywhere else in the world. Having said this, watsonia species were introduced as garden ornamentals to Australia in the mid-19th century and were widely grown by the 1940s. Today, in the South-West of Western Australia, six species have escaped from garden cultivation and become naturalized along rivers, wetlands and seasonally wet ground. In places Watsonias have displaced native understory flora and high concentrations of them create a fire hazard in summer.
There are about 52 Watsonia species; most of which are concentrated in the south-western parts of the Western Cape, but also extending north into Namaqualand and east into the summer rainfall areas of southern KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mpumalanga and Swaziland. Most are deciduous fynbos plants which are adapted to a Mediterranean-type climate with hot, dry summers and wet winters; and the majority of the species occur in mountainous regions, with a couple occurring in sandy flats and marshy areas. Those which occur in the summer rainfall regions are evergreen.
Mountain Watsonia, Watsonia fourcadei, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Watsonia fourcadei is found in the Eastern and Western Cape and has pretty salmon pink flowers. It grows +- 90 to 180cm tall.
All are perennial herbs growing from corms 30 to 40mm in diameter with grey-brown tunics; producing attractive upright lance shaped leaves and erect spikes of showy flowers. In the wild the plants flower particularly profusely in the first and second years following a fire; and in recently burnt areas provide a major source of food for nectar-feeding birds, insects and rodents.
Habitat:
Watsonia fourcadei is a genus of plants in the Iris family and endemic to South Africa; meaning originally, they could not be found growing wild anywhere else in the world. Having said this, watsonia species were introduced as garden ornamentals to Australia in the mid-19th century and were widely grown by the 1940s. Today, in the South-West of Western Australia, six species have escaped from garden cultivation and become naturalized along rivers, wetlands and seasonally wet ground. In places Watsonias have displaced native understory flora and high concentrations of them create a fire hazard in summer.
There are about 52 Watsonia species; most of which are concentrated in the south-western parts of the Western Cape, but also extending north into Namaqualand and east into the summer rainfall areas of southern KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Mpumalanga and Swaziland. Most are deciduous fynbos plants which are adapted to a Mediterranean-type climate with hot, dry summers and wet winters; and the majority of the species occur in mountainous regions, with a couple occurring in sandy flats and marshy areas. Those which occur in the summer rainfall regions are evergreen.
Mountain Watsonia, Watsonia fourcadei, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/1250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 35 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/1250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 187 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
Thank you with all my heart for stopping by and having a look at my photo.
If you like what you see please press the like button, share and leave a comment. I read all my comments, and try to answer them all.
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Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/1250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 187 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
Thank you with all my heart for stopping by and having a look at my photo.
If you like what you see please press the like button, share and leave a comment. I read all my comments, and try to answer them all.
Have a Blessed day
Coreen
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Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 187 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
Thank you with all my heart for stopping by and having a look at my photo.
If you like what you see please press the like button, share and leave a comment. I read all my comments, and try to answer them all.
Have a Blessed day
Coreen
PS. Please support me on☕ Ko-Fi ☕. I have to save up enough money to cover some of the expenses for my Landscape Photography Trip to Namibia and also honoring my promise to Dad to go back to Scotland.
Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 187 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
Thank you with all my heart for stopping by and having a look at my photo.
If you like what you see please press the like button, share and leave a comment. I read all my comments, and try to answer them all.
Have a Blessed day
Coreen
PS. Please support me on☕ Ko-Fi ☕. I have to save up enough money to cover some of the expenses for my Landscape Photography Trip to Namibia and also honoring my promise to Dad to go back to Scotland.
Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 187 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
Thank you with all my heart for stopping by and having a look at my photo.
If you like what you see please press the like button, share and leave a comment. I read all my comments, and try to answer them all.
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Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 187 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 190 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 18 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/500 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 18 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Also known as, breëblaar-kanolpypie, rooikanolpypie, kanolpypie in Afrikaans
Description:
Watsonia marginata is a beautiful plant, with attractive foliage and gorgeous spikes of cup-shaped pink or white flowers. It is easily distinguished from other species of Watsonia by both its leaves and its flowers.
The leaves are made distinctive by being unusually broad, bluish-green in color and with pronounced, heavily thickened, yellowish margins while the flowers are different from other members of this genus in that they are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical, as in a flower that can be divided into two identical halves (mirror images) along more than one plane), and they have a short and narrow perianth tube where other members are zygomorphic (of unequal or irregular shape, divisible into equal halves in one plane only) and have longer and wider perianth tubes. In other words, Watsonia marginata flowers are cup-shaped and Ixia-like compared to its tubular-flowered relatives.
This watsonia is a deciduous, winter-growing, summer-dormant corm. Each corm produces 3 – 4 broadly sword-shaped, bluish-green leaves with pronounced yellowish margins and prominent midribs. The leaves appear in autumn, and stand one-third to two-thirds as high as the flower spike, i.e. 40 – 60 cm tall.
Towards the end of their growing season, each corm sends up one straight, tall flower spike, each spike reaching a height of 1.2 – 1.5 m occasionally as high as 2 m. The spike has a large number of short branches which are closely pressed against the main axis of the flower stalk, each carrying a few flowers, with the whole spike carrying up to ±50 densely packed flowers. The flowering season extends for about 4 weeks during spring to early summer (Sept. to Nov.).
Flower color is variable, occurring in shades of mauve, pink or white, even maroon, and the center of each flower is marked with magenta and white. There are also dwarf forms with pink or white flowers, where the flower spike is only about 0.5 m tall. At Kirstenbosch, although we have various shades of mauve, pink and white and dwarf forms in the collection, we display a mauve flowered form and the white form called ‘Star Spike’ in the Garden, both of which are tall. The fruit of Watsonia marginata is a small, rounded, woody capsule of several angular brownish seeds with prominent membranous ridges.
Habitat:
Watsonia marginata occurs in the winter-rainfall region of South Africa in the area between the Bokkeveld Mountains near Nieuwoudtville in the north to the Cape Peninsula and the Caledon district in the south, and is virtually restricted to areas of complete summer drought. It can be found growing from near sea level to middle elevations in the mountains, in stony clay soils and sometimes in seasonally marshy or temporary seep areas in sandy soils.
Watsonia marginata belongs in the Iridaceae (iris family), a family of roughly 70 genera and 1800 species which occur all over the world. Other members of this family well known to gardeners and florists alike include Iris, Gladiolus, Freesia and Dietes. The genus Watsonia is one of the larger genera in this family, yet occurs only in southern Africa. It contains 52 species, 34 of which are concentrated in the winter-rainfall region, in the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, 21 in the summer-rainfall regions of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and the Eastern Cape, and 1 species in Madagascar.
Broad-leaf Watsonia, Watsonia marginata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/500 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 18 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Also known as Blue Flax, Wild Flax, Showy Sunflax , Blousporrie, Sporries
Description:
This dainty, blue annual is an absolute delight when it comes to flowers. Upright and graceful, with small cups of bright blue flowers, the plants appear to dance in a light breeze.
Under good conditions, Heliophila coronopifolia grows bushy and about 600 mm tall. The smooth stems and soft, slender leaves are bright green. The blue flowers are arranged in little spikes at the tips of the stems. The four petals of the flower open wide to display the white center with the pollen and stigma in the middle. The flowers are quick to close during cool weather and at night. The seed pods are long, splitting when the small brown seeds are ripe.
Habitat:
They are found from Namaqualand to the Western Cape, often flowering in enormous drifts and covering fields in clouds of blue. They are also often found between other annuals like the Namaqualand daisies or ursinias.
Heliophila means sun loving. In South Africa there are 71 species of Heliophila most of them annuals naturally growing throughout Namaqualand and the south western Cape. Although many of them are similar to Heliophila coronopifolia with blue flowers, there are also species with pink and white flowers.
Blue flax, Heliophila coronopifolia, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/1250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Also known as Blue Flax, Wild Flax, Showy Sunflax , Blousporrie, Sporries
Description:
This dainty, blue annual is an absolute delight when it comes to flowers. Upright and graceful, with small cups of bright blue flowers, the plants appear to dance in a light breeze.
Under good conditions, Heliophila coronopifolia grows bushy and about 600 mm tall. The smooth stems and soft, slender leaves are bright green. The blue flowers are arranged in little spikes at the tips of the stems. The four petals of the flower open wide to display the white center with the pollen and stigma in the middle. The flowers are quick to close during cool weather and at night. The seed pods are long, splitting when the small brown seeds are ripe.
Habitat:
They are found from Namaqualand to the Western Cape, often flowering in enormous drifts and covering fields in clouds of blue. They are also often found between other annuals like the Namaqualand daisies or ursinias.
Heliophila means sun loving. In South Africa there are 71 species of Heliophila most of them annuals naturally growing throughout Namaqualand and the south western Cape. Although many of them are similar to Heliophila coronopifolia with blue flowers, there are also species with pink and white flowers.
Blue flax, Heliophila coronopifolia, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/1250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZafrica.com
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Pelargonium elongatum is a small, soft-textured plant up to 25cm. Young leaves are heart-shaped but become 5-lobed when older, often with a reddish zonal marking; umbels of up to 6 dainty flowers are borne on long flower stalks, cream in color with red-wine markings on the 2 upper petals.
Habitat:
Pelargonium elongatum is a small straggling ground covering plant which prefers to grow under or next to taller plants. Best planted in medium-sized pots or in larger pots mixed with other plants, window boxes or planted in the garden. You can find them on stony slopes in the Southwestern and Southern Cape.
Long Storkbill, Pelargonium elongatum, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/1250 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Pelargonium elongatum is a small, soft-textured plant up to 25cm. Young leaves are heart-shaped but become 5-lobed when older, often with a reddish zonal marking; umbels of up to 6 dainty flowers are borne on long flower stalks, cream in color with red-wine markings on the 2 upper petals.
Habitat:
Pelargonium elongatum is a small straggling ground covering plant which prefers to grow under or next to taller plants. Best planted in medium-sized pots or in larger pots mixed with other plants, window boxes or planted in the garden. You can find them on stony slopes in the Southwestern and Southern Cape.
Long Storkbill, Pelargonium elongatum, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Lobelia erinus, is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae, native to southern Africa. Also known as edging lobelia, garden lobelia or trailing lobelia.
Description:
It is a low growing, prostrate or scrambling herbaceous perennial plant growing to 8–15 cm tall. The basal leaves are oval, 10 mm long and 4–8 mm broad, with a toothed margin; leaves higher on the stems are slender and sometimes untoothed.
The flowers are blue to violet in wild plants, with a five-lobed corolla 8–20 mm across; they are produced in loose panicles. About 0.5 to 4.5 inches long inflorescence stems are about 5 inches long, loose racemose inflorescences with many flowers. The hermaphrodite flower is zygomorphic with a length of up to 1 centimeter and quinate with double perianth. The five sepals are fused. The fan-shaped lower lip is trilobed. The color of the crown varies depending on the variety between white, blue, purple, pink or red and the center is yellow or white. The five stamens are 3 to 7 millimeters long.
The fruit is a 5–8 mm capsule containing numerous small seeds.
Habitat:
The distribution area lies in southern Africa and extends from Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe to the south to Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, Lesotho and the South African provinces.
Uses:
Lobelia erinus, is a very popular edging plant in gardens, especially for hanging baskets and window boxes. In temperate zones it is grown as a half-hardy annual, i.e. sown under glass with some heat in spring, then planted out when all danger of frost has passed. Alternatively, plants can be purchased from garden centers as young “plug” plants, to be transferred outside in May or June.
Edging Lobelia, Lobelia erinus, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Wikipedia
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Lobelia erinus, is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae, native to southern Africa. Also known as edging lobelia, garden lobelia or trailing lobelia.
Description:
It is a low growing, prostrate or scrambling herbaceous perennial plant growing to 8–15 cm tall. The basal leaves are oval, 10 mm long and 4–8 mm broad, with a toothed margin; leaves higher on the stems are slender and sometimes untoothed.
The flowers are blue to violet in wild plants, with a five-lobed corolla 8–20 mm across; they are produced in loose panicles. About 0.5 to 4.5 inches long inflorescence stems are about 5 inches long, loose racemose inflorescences with many flowers. The hermaphrodite flower is zygomorphic with a length of up to 1 centimeter and quinate with double perianth. The five sepals are fused. The fan-shaped lower lip is trilobed. The color of the crown varies depending on the variety between white, blue, purple, pink or red and the center is yellow or white. The five stamens are 3 to 7 millimeters long.
The fruit is a 5–8 mm capsule containing numerous small seeds.
Habitat:
The distribution area lies in southern Africa and extends from Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe to the south to Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, Lesotho and the South African provinces.
Uses:
Lobelia erinus, is a very popular edging plant in gardens, especially for hanging baskets and window boxes. In temperate zones it is grown as a half-hardy annual, i.e. sown under glass with some heat in spring, then planted out when all danger of frost has passed. Alternatively, plants can be purchased from garden centers as young “plug” plants, to be transferred outside in May or June.
Edging Lobelia, Lobelia erinus, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Wikipedia
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Also known as Molteno disease plant or Geelgifbossie in Afrikaans.
Description:
Senecio burchellii, is a large genus of annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, small trees and vines classified within the daisy family.
This softly wooded smooth shrublet has narrow leaves with margins rolled under. The leaves are sometimes sparsely toothed. It bears loose clusters of radiate flowerheads with yellow rays and disc; which are carried in a corymb shape, meaning that the inflorescence has the flowers growing in such a way that the outermost are borne on longer stalks than the inner, bringing all flowers up to a common level.
This plant is highly toxic to ruminants and even horses, especially in early spring in degraded veld where they are the first to shoot and there is very little else to eat.
Habitat:
Senecio burchellii is found in Sandy and stony slopes from Namibia to the Eastern Cape.
Kill Ragwort, Senecio burchellii, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Also known as Molteno disease plant or Geelgifbossie in Afrikaans.
Description:
Senecio burchellii, is a large genus of annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, small trees and vines classified within the daisy family.
This softly wooded smooth shrublet has narrow leaves with margins rolled under. The leaves are sometimes sparsely toothed. It bears loose clusters of radiate flowerheads with yellow rays and disc; which are carried in a corymb shape, meaning that the inflorescence has the flowers growing in such a way that the outermost are borne on longer stalks than the inner, bringing all flowers up to a common level.
This plant is highly toxic to ruminants and even horses, especially in early spring in degraded veld where they are the first to shoot and there is very little else to eat.
Habitat:
Senecio burchellii is found in Sandy and stony slopes from Namibia to the Eastern Cape.
Kill Ragwort, Senecio burchellii, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Also known as Molteno disease plant or Geelgifbossie in Afrikaans.
Description:
Senecio burchellii, is a large genus of annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, small trees and vines classified within the daisy family.
This softly wooded smooth shrublet has narrow leaves with margins rolled under. The leaves are sometimes sparsely toothed. It bears loose clusters of radiate flowerheads with yellow rays and disc; which are carried in a corymb shape, meaning that the inflorescence has the flowers growing in such a way that the outermost are borne on longer stalks than the inner, bringing all flowers up to a common level.
This plant is highly toxic to ruminants and even horses, especially in early spring in degraded veld where they are the first to shoot and there is very little else to eat.
Habitat:
Senecio burchellii is found in Sandy and stony slopes from Namibia to the Eastern Cape.
Kill Ragwort, Senecio burchellii, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Also known as Molteno disease plant or Geelgifbossie in Afrikaans.
Description:
Senecio burchellii, is a large genus of annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, small trees and vines classified within the daisy family.
This softly wooded smooth shrublet has narrow leaves with margins rolled under. The leaves are sometimes sparsely toothed. It bears loose clusters of radiate flowerheads with yellow rays and disc; which are carried in a corymb shape, meaning that the inflorescence has the flowers growing in such a way that the outermost are borne on longer stalks than the inner, bringing all flowers up to a common level.
This plant is highly toxic to ruminants and even horses, especially in early spring in degraded veld where they are the first to shoot and there is very little else to eat.
Habitat:
Senecio burchellii is found in Sandy and stony slopes from Namibia to the Eastern Cape.
Kill Ragwort, Senecio burchellii, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Field Guide to Fynbos by John Manning
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Felicia echinata, commonly known as the dune daisy or prickly felicia, is a species of shrub native to South Africa belonging to the daisy family (Compositae or Asteraceae). It grows to 1 m (3.3 ft) high and bears blue-purple flower heads with yellow central discs. In the wild, it flowers from April to October.
Description:
Dune Felicia, is an upright, strongly branching shrublet of up to 1 m (3.3 ft) high. The well-branching stems are alternately and often densely set with thick, inclined, overlapping leaves of 10–14 mm (0.39–0.55 in) long and 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) wide, hairless or fringed. and also, on the upper leaf surface with hairs and, below the upper leaf surface, with many roundish glands. As in almost all Asteraceae, the individual florets are 5-merous, small, and clustered in typical “composite” heads, surrounded by an involucre of three or four whorls of lanceolate bracts, the outer 4 mm (0.16 in) long and 1 mm (0.039 in) wide, the inner 9 mm (0.35 in) long and 1.2 mm (0.047 in) wide, all with rough hairs that become glandular near the bract tip. In Felicia echinata, the center of the head contains many yellow disc florets of 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long, and is surrounded by one single whorl of about 25 bluish-purple, rarely white, ligulate florets 13 mm (0.51 in) long and 1.8 mm (0.071 in) wide, which are hairy at their base. These florets sit on a common base (or receptacle) 15 mm (0.59 in) across and are not individually subtended by a bract. The one-seeded fruits (or cypselas) are inverted, egg-shaped to oval, yellow-brown to reddish in color, have two conspicuous vascular bundles along their edge, and are crowned by a circle of many, 4 mm (0.16 in)-long, bone-colored hairs, with small teeth along their length and slightly wider at the tip. The surface of those belonging to the ligulate florets are hairless, those of the disc florets have very short hairs. Solitary flower heads sit at the tip of a 0–4 cm (0.0–1.6 in) long peduncles, in few-headed, umbel-like inflorescences.
Habitat:
An endemic of the Cape Floristic Region, and only occurs in a narrow strip along the south coast between Mossel Bay and Bathurst.
Dune Felicia, Felicia echinata, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: Wikipedia
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Also known in Afrikaans as Agtdaegeneesbossie, Broodbos, Geneesbossie, Pleisterbos, Geelpleisterbos, Vet-en-broodbos.
Description:
Hermannia multiflora, is a sturdy, much-branched shrublet, up to 500 mm high. Leaves in tufts and coarsely toothed, both surfaces covered with star-like hairs. Flowers yellow, becoming red-brown with age, sweetly scented. Very palatable and drought resistant. Hermannia is a genus of small shrubs, ranging from upright to sprawling prostrate shrublets. They are characterized by the presence of minute glandular or star-like hairs on the leaves and stems. The stems often have a dark grey bark. Leaves are alternate and entire, lobed or incised. Flowers consist of 5 petals which are slightly or very strongly spirally twisted into an upended rose. Most Hermannia species possess a thick woody stem and root, forming an underground stem, which enables the plants to survive dry periods and fires. In the veld, hermannias appear woody, some species being very palatable to stock and browsed down to the main branches.
Habitat:
The genus consists of 154 species, which have a distribution mainly across the Flora of Southern Africa area. There are 141 South African species alone, of which 81 are endemic to South Africa (occurring in South Africa only). The genus is also found in Madagascar, and extends through tropical East Africa (14 species, some shared with southern Africa) to North East Africa (four species, possibly more) and Arabia (one species, also found in Egypt and Sudan). A single species ( Hermannia tigrensis) is found in Western Africa as well as southern Africa and North East Africa. There are three species in Northern Mexico and adjacent parts of the United States, a single species in southern Mexico, and a single species in Australia. The greatest diversity is within the Western Cape, Northern Cape, Free State, Lesotho and Namibia widespread in fynbos, karoo and grassland.
Uses:
This plant is used medicinally to heal wounds, therefore the name, Geneesbos. Many members of the genus are used medicinally, for anything ranging from respiratory diseases, coughs and internal aches, as stimulants or purgatives, to soothing wounds and cuts. The common name Pleisterbos ( Hermannia cuneifolia ) refers to the use of the leaves as plasters. In some plants the leaves are infused in tea, and used to clean the blood. A root infusion was used by the early European colonial settlers for epilepsy. A lotion of the leaf was used for eczema and shingles. Certain species have magical significance and are used to drive out spirits and to wash the divining bones. H. depressa is used as a protective charm by the Zulus. H. hysopifolia is used in making aromatic tea. Only one species has been found to be toxic to stock ( H. tomentosa ), but it is doubtful whether animals will browse this plant in the veld.
Geneesbossie, Hermannia multiflora, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZAfrica
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Also known in Afrikaans as Agtdaegeneesbossie, Broodbos, Geneesbossie, Pleisterbos, Geelpleisterbos, Vet-en-broodbos.
Description:
Hermannia multiflora, is a sturdy, much-branched shrublet, up to 500 mm high. Leaves in tufts and coarsely toothed, both surfaces covered with star-like hairs. Flowers yellow, becoming red-brown with age, sweetly scented. Very palatable and drought resistant. Hermannia is a genus of small shrubs, ranging from upright to sprawling prostrate shrublets. They are characterized by the presence of minute glandular or star-like hairs on the leaves and stems. The stems often have a dark grey bark. Leaves are alternate and entire, lobed or incised. Flowers consist of 5 petals which are slightly or very strongly spirally twisted into an upended rose. Most Hermannia species possess a thick woody stem and root, forming an underground stem, which enables the plants to survive dry periods and fires. In the veld, hermannias appear woody, some species being very palatable to stock and browsed down to the main branches.
Habitat:
The genus consists of 154 species, which have a distribution mainly across the Flora of Southern Africa area. There are 141 South African species alone, of which 81 are endemic to South Africa (occurring in South Africa only). The genus is also found in Madagascar, and extends through tropical East Africa (14 species, some shared with southern Africa) to North East Africa (four species, possibly more) and Arabia (one species, also found in Egypt and Sudan). A single species ( Hermannia tigrensis) is found in Western Africa as well as southern Africa and North East Africa. There are three species in Northern Mexico and adjacent parts of the United States, a single species in southern Mexico, and a single species in Australia. The greatest diversity is within the Western Cape, Northern Cape, Free State, Lesotho and Namibia widespread in fynbos, karoo and grassland.
Uses:
This plant is used medicinally to heal wounds, therefore the name, Geneesbos. Many members of the genus are used medicinally, for anything ranging from respiratory diseases, coughs and internal aches, as stimulants or purgatives, to soothing wounds and cuts. The common name pleisterbos ( Hermannia cuneifolia ) refers to the use of the leaves as plasters. In some plants the leaves are infused in tea, and used to clean the blood. A root infusion was used by the early European colonial settlers for epilepsy. A lotion of the leaf was used for eczema and shingles. Certain species have magical significance and are used to drive out spirits and to wash the divining bones. H. depressa is used as a protective charm by the Zulus. H. hysopifolia is used in making an aromatic tea. Only one species has been found to be toxic to stock ( H. tomentosa ), but it is doubtful whether animals will browse this plant in the veld.
Geneesbossie, Hermannia multiflora, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZAfrica
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Also known in Afrikaans as Agtdaegeneesbossie, Broodbos, Geneesbossie, Pleisterbos, Geelpleisterbos, Vet-en-broodbos.
Description:
Hermannia multiflora, is a sturdy, much-branched shrublet, up to 500 mm high. Leaves in tufts and coarsely toothed, both surfaces covered with star-like hairs. Flowers yellow, becoming red-brown with age, sweetly scented. Very palatable and drought resistant. Hermannia is a genus of small shrubs, ranging from upright to sprawling prostrate shrublets. They are characterized by the presence of minute glandular or star-like hairs on the leaves and stems. The stems often have a dark grey bark. Leaves are alternate and entire, lobed or incised. Flowers consist of 5 petals which are slightly or very strongly spirally twisted into an upended rose. Most Hermannia species possess a thick woody stem and root, forming an underground stem, which enables the plants to survive dry periods and fires. In the veld, hermannias appear woody, some species being very palatable to stock and browsed down to the main branches.
Habitat:
The genus consists of 154 species, which have a distribution mainly across the Flora of Southern Africa area. There are 141 South African species alone, of which 81 are endemic to South Africa (occurring in South Africa only). The genus is also found in Madagascar, and extends through tropical East Africa (14 species, some shared with southern Africa) to North East Africa (four species, possibly more) and Arabia (one species, also found in Egypt and Sudan). A single species ( Hermannia tigrensis) is found in Western Africa as well as southern Africa and North East Africa. There are three species in Northern Mexico and adjacent parts of the United States, a single species in southern Mexico, and a single species in Australia. The greatest diversity is within the Western Cape, Northern Cape, Free State, Lesotho and Namibia widespread in fynbos, karoo and grassland.
Uses:
This plant is used medicinally to heal wounds, therefore the name, Geneesbos. Many members of the genus are used medicinally, for anything ranging from respiratory diseases, coughs and internal aches, as stimulants or purgatives, to soothing wounds and cuts. The common name pleisterbos ( Hermannia cuneifolia ) refers to the use of the leaves as plasters. In some plants the leaves are infused in tea, and used to clean the blood. A root infusion was used by the early European colonial settlers for epilepsy. A lotion of the leaf was used for eczema and shingles. Certain species have magical significance and are used to drive out spirits and to wash the divining bones. H. depressa is used as a protective charm by the Zulus. H. hysopifolia is used in making an aromatic tea. Only one species has been found to be toxic to stock ( H. tomentosa ), but it is doubtful whether animals will browse this plant in the veld.
Geneesbossie, Hermannia multiflora, Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Location: Durbanville Nature Reserve, Durbanville, South Africa
Date Taken: 2020-10-25
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Lens: Canon Zoom Lens EF-S 18-200 mm 3-5.6 IS
Exposure Program: Manual
Image Quality: RAW
F-Stop: f/7.1
Exposure Time: 1/200 sec
ISO Speed: ISO-100
Focal Length: 200 mm
Metering Mode: Spot Metering
Handheld
Post Processing: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Photographer: Coreen Kuhn
Information: PlantZAfrica
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