introduce you to my blogging and life 
06
19
2009
Bizarre, beautiful, maybe simple, often exquisitely complex, at times shy and others outrageously loud, whether orchids or carnivores, these 
are the flowers and plants of the Western Cape. They are the fynbos, part of the Cape floral kingdom, smallest of the world’s six floral kingdoms but also the richest per area unit.
Most shots were taken around Cape Point, Table Mountain and Silvermine, magical places if I ever knew one, on many a beautiful walk with Marie, nature all around, peace within.
I will label each specie once my specialist has looked at them and pronounced a verdict.
Posted at 12:36 PM in Photoblogs:
« Oh my goodness. How nice. You’ll have to give me some time, though
Date of comment: 2009-06-19 17:48 •- the blue disa is known as the drip disa, and is Disa longicornu. I think*. It grows on shaded cliffs and rock faces with its feet in clean dripping water.* But it could be Disa..um...vaginata. I will have to google. And we did not see it on a cliff, did we. It was on the Aqueduct.
I think the protea is P. speciosa.
The white everlasting I call skaapbossies (sheep bushes) cos they look like flocks of sheep from far. Will have to look up.
The orange pincushion is Leucospermum but whatum I don’t knowum even though I shouldum.
Watsonia (tall pink one) is probably W. tabularis?
The blue (?) is interesting, but I can’t see what it is Did it have a long stem? Stems or leaves help ID.
Sundew - the sparkly sticky one: Drosera trinervia. Eats insects! »
« Could it be Leucospermum cordifolium? »
Date of comment: 2009-06-21 17:58 •« Yeah, could it?
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Date of comment: 2009-06-21 20:46 •