CRADOCK : 14 15 16 FEBRUARY

What a surprise to see the Karoo so green ! We can see many bushes in bloom and flowers...but we don't know their names ...It's just for the "pleasure of the eyes as we say in French!"
      YOUR pleasure , I hope...
Even if they're not succulents, we enjoy the sight : it's like a field with daisies in spring in France !
Plants seen in and around a fam 20 kms from Cradock, opposite Mountain Zebra NP.

1  Ipomea

2  Oxalis obliquifolia (Skewleaf Sorrel)

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5  Bulbine abyssinica (African Beardstyle)

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10 Aloe

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id

13  Argemone ochroleuca (Yellow Prickly Poppy)

14 seen at Gariep dam too

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16 bulb :  Moraea polystachya (Karoo Tulp)

17 another bulb...

18 Erica?

19   Yellow - Asteraceae, Pentzia, Chrysocoma or Oncosiphon,  

                                             Purple - Aizoaceae, maybe a Ruschia sp.

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22 a beautiful bridesmaid bouquet...

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27 Gladioli  : ritonia laxifolia (Common Triton)

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29 bulb, which?

30 seen in Colesberg, without flower

                                                                         

HOPETOWN :11 12 FEVRIER

This is the country of Caput medusae!
But I don't know their precise names.

A caput medusae

B id

C id

D id

E id

Aren't they beautiful!!!

But we also saw plants which are not at all indigenous :cacti

F  Tephrocactus articulatus (Argentina) thanks Damien!

G  Cylindropuntia (American)

This one has quite flexible stems, it's not a cactus nor a succulent...What is it?

H  ?

On the dirt road leadingto the "Toll house" and the old bridge, we saw a few flowers

I  ?

J  ?

K  ?

L  ?

It's very interesting to change region and find different plants...The people we speak to must think we are  mad, roaming the country like this...
Even one of our hostesses said we mustn't  walk by ourselves in the fields or hills...It was dangerous. She was quite adamant.;;Well we do this in every country we visit....

PRIESKA :10 11 FEBRUARY

We saw some interesting plants, but I'm afraid they're mostly succulents...
I don't know all the names...

A   ?    seen along the road between Upington and Prieska

B   Euphorbia, same location

 C   Aloe marlotii (?) seen landscape below, road to Copperton

 D   Euphorbia which? same location or Tephrocactus?

gravel rd to Vosburg, off rd to Copperton

E    Tephrocactus articulatus (Argentina)   (thanks Damien !), on the viewpoint, Prieska
Is it the same as above?

F Euphorbia (which)?

G no idea !

H    Caput medusae

I    Aloe (?)

J  Aloe (?)

If you can ID the plants, that would help...