WESTERN CAPE AND NAMAQUALAND, SOUTH AFRICA
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2010 PAGE FOUR


Day Three - 23 August 2010: Table Mountain and Cape Peninsula (Cont.)

   
Erica lutea
Ericaceae
 
Gladiolus bonaspei
Iridaceae
 
Protea repens
Proteaceae


 
Protea cynaroides
Proteaceae
"The King Protea"
 



 
 
Serruria villosa
Proteaceae
 
Grasshopper
 


 
 
Diastella divaricata
Proteaceae
 


 
 
Berzelia abrotanoides
Bruniaceae
 
 
Pelargonium cucullatum
Geraniaceae
Flower beetle
Lobostemon fruticosus
Boraginaceae
Ostriches
Struthio camelus


Terrain of the Cape Peninsula


   
Moraea miniata
Iridaceae



   
Unidentified
  
Unidentified
  
Unidentified


 
Mimetes fimbriifolius
Proteaceae


       
   
Hyobanche sanguinea
Orobanchaeceae		    
    Helichrysum stellatum
Asteraceae


 
Unidentified
  
Unidentified
Possibly Dorotheanthus?


 
Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron
Proteaceae
[This has got to be one of the longest Latin names I've ever encountered.]
 
 
 
                     Eland
            Taurotragus oryx
[Tauros is Greek for a bull or bullock, Tragos is Greek for a male goat and refers to the tuft of hair that grows in the eland's ear resembling a goat's beard, and Oryx is Greek for pickaxe referring to the pointed horns.]


   
Carpobrotus edulis
Mesembryanthemaceae
 
Blesbok
Damaliscus pygargus


   
Aspalathus capensis
Fabaceae
 
Tecoma capensis
Bignoniaceae
 
African "Jackass" penguin
Spheniscus demersus


 


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