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Cape Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus ssp. ursinus)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Neighbourhood baboon. Male enjoying a nice juicy red apple, from a house that left the windows open. And yearning for the hills, but she won't go that way. Travelling with female and baby - who both wouldn't sit still for a photo. Moving towards Evergreen.
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Beach Ragwort (Senecio maritimus)Observer
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almost on the beach
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Sea Slaters (Genus Ligia)Observer
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Sorry - run for your life then hide in the shadows - makes for poor photos.
Added a lightened version first
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Rooikrans Gall Midge (Dasineura dielsi)Observer
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Wrong setting, had to lighten the photos.
Wasp causing biocontrol galls on invasive Accacia
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Common Lichens (Class Lecanoromycetes)Observer
dianastuderDescription
crusty orange lichen to excuse dolerite intrusion pictures
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Cape Beach Lichen (Roccellina hypomecha var. hypomecha)Observer
dianastuderDescription
grey festoons of lichen on shady rocks
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Common Pagoda (Mimetes cucullatus)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Christmas bling colours. Lower growing sp.
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Seaside Sunburst Lichen (Xanthoria aureola)Observer
dianastuderDescription
orange and forking, on shady rocks
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Wattleleaf Conebush (Leucadendron macowanii)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Wattleleaf. Gets mistaken for invasive Australian acacias. We found 2 plants, this mama and a baby https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/203487883 . When we walked back, we decided there are more inside the National Park fence.
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Coastal Camphorbush (Tarchonanthus littoralis)Observer
dianastuderDescription
That white fluff on the hairy grass blades, is not grass seeds? Fallen from Tarchonanthus ?
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Coral Fern (Gleichenia polypodioides)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Scalloped margins. Medium sized fern. Damp and shady.
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Diamond Caperose (Cliffortia obcordata)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Not zoomed in, the leaves are like a stack of coins. Tiny dark floofy 'flowers'
Rose family
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Cape Hard Fern (Blechnum capense)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Tall and sturdy fern growing in damp and shady places along path and the stream
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Soft Widowpea (Rafnia triflora)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Rafnia is a pea. And those 'twirled leaves' are its fruit. (I despair)
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Turkey Tangle Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora)Observer
dianastuderDescription
also flourishing on the strimmed firebreak
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Pineleaf Lobelia (Lobelia pinifolia)Observer
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(sorry bad pictures) but, to remind myself what the 'pine leaves' look like
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Heathlike Heath (Erica ericoides)Observer
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In white.
The usual pink https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/203338362
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Belladonna Lily (Amaryllis belladonna)Observer
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But firebreak management alongside Noordhoek Manor permitted one clump of March lilies.
And lots of invasive Australian Acacia seedlings.
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Genus IflogaObserver
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to Noordhoek Fire Lookout
fascicles of leaves
ambigua ?
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Heathlike Heath (Erica ericoides)Observer
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to Noordhoek Fire Lookout. The usual pink.
Upright compact shrublet. Leaves in whorls of 4. Flowers at tips. Short tube or bell. 4 anthers and style dangling out.
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Cluster Disa (Disa ferruginea)Observer
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to Noordhoek Fire Lookout
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Searsia Flea Beetles (Genus Calotheca)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Searsia beetle - we have Searsia in our garden. Found inside.
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Bushman Grasses (Genus Stipagrostis)Observer
dianastuderDescription
'flowers' have 3 branches. With feathers.
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Itchy Squill (Drimia media)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Flat blade leaves, a bit thick and succulent. On the firebreak
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Leafless Kopieva (Bulbine favosa)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Floofy anthers. No leaves with the flowers
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Garden Acraea (Acraea horta)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Cool morning expecting rain, freshly emerged and pumping up those new wings!
Caterpillars from a 2018 batch
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/118955449
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Western Coastal Wattle (Acacia cyclops)Observer
dianastuderDescription
Intended for Vegmap.
Photobombed by invasive alien
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Cape Honey Bee (Apis mellifera ssp. capensis)Observer
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this is why urban beekeepers resist removing invasive gums