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Phillipskop Observations
Flora & fauna of Phillipskop Mountain Reserve, near Hermanus, South Africa; animals, flowers, plants, insects, mammals, frogs, tortoises, etc.
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Mammals
Plants
Flowers
Bulbous Plants
South Africa
Saltera sarcocolla has clearly protruding stamens
Hermanus
Napier
Flora And Fauna
Stanford
Heath
Erica
Stems
Mammals
Pink Flowers
Erica vogelpoelii is endemic to the mountains around Stanford and Napier in the Overberg. The pink flowers are borne in large clusters that are appear top-heavy on their very thin stems.
Colour
Flowers
Plants
Color
Plant
Royal Icing Flowers
The flowers of Erica corifolia have brightly coloured calyx and bracts, the same colour as the flowers.
Most Beautiful Flowers
Carnivorous
Tortoises
Shades Of White
Petal
Species
Drosera cistiflora has some of the largest and most beautiful flowers in the genus
Pink Petals
Bulbous Plants
Fynbos
Open Flower
Gentian
Flower Spike
Spring Bulbs
Foliage Plants
Ixia stricta is a bulbous plant which produces bright pink flowers on straight upright (strict) stems #Iridaceae #Ixia #Capeflora #Capefloralkingdom
Flower Cones
Botanist
Habitats
Fauna
Farmland
Leucadendron microcephalum - Golden Boot Polish
Golden flowers of Leucadendron microcephalum shine in front of an advancing storm cloud over the Akkedisberg
Seed Bank
Western Cape
Protea
Scepter
Extinction
Conservation
King Gustav's Sceptre, Paranomus sceptrum-gustavianus, is a rare member of the protea family that is found as isolated plants and only flowers around 7 years after a fire. It is therefore at risk of local extinctions.
Tropical Africa
Asclepias
Eastern Cape
Locust
How To Level Ground
Nymph
Lurid colours of a nymph of the Milkweed Locust, Phymateus leprosus, feeding on one of the milkweeds, Gomphocarpus cancellatus
John Rose
Unusual Flowers
Garden Photos
Green Rose
Rose Garden
Asclepias crispa is one of the milkweeds that grow in the Klein River Mountains. All have dense heads of these rather unusual flowers. #apocynaceae #asclepiadaceae
Gansbaai
Small Pink Flowers
Temple Bells
Whorl
Small Leaf
Single Flower
Autumn Day
Erica ericoides has a strong honey-like fragrance and the bees love it. #Ericaceae #fynbos
Trees To Plant
Scarlet
South Africa
Wind Sock
Watsonia schlechteri flowers in summer with intense scarlet flowers that can easily be spotted across the fynbos #Iridaceae
Common Names
Blue Flowers
Iris
Flora
Spikes
Dense
Dense flowered spikes of Aristea capitata (Iridaceae) are the reason for the common name Blue Rocket
Large Moth
Emperor Moth
Moth Caterpillar
Southern Africa
Pine
The beautiful markings of Christmas Caterpillars, Nudaurelia cytherea. The caterpillars eventually turn into the Pine Emperor Moth. #moth #caterpillar #Saturniidae
Self Catering Cottages
Chalet Style
Erina
Vulnerable Erica erina has short flowers with long protruding styles and stamens
Endangered
Disc
Round
Large
Erica exleeana has protruding styles with a large round disc-like stigma on the end
Spring Time
Cone
Flower Arrangements
Sunshine
Gardens
Leucadendron xanthoconus (Proteaceae) female flowering cone
Cones
Luminescent green of Erica sessiliflora, the only heather with serotinous cones
The Mosquito Lily, Wurmbea glassii, is a very small bulbous plant, only two to three centimetres high. The flowers are minute with six fine petals like the legs of a mosquito.
Phillipskop Mountain Reserve
Phillipskop Observations
Fall Flowers
Daisy
Autumn
Autumn Flowers
Fall Season
Syncarpha canescens (Asteraceae) is an autumn-flowering Everlasting flower #fynbos #sewejaartjie #Asteraceae #daisy
Phillipskop Mountain Reserve
Phillipskop Observations
Heavily
Heathers
Bunch
Vines
Produce
Like a heavily laden vine, Erica multumbellifera produces bunches of grape-like flowers #Erica #Ericaceae #heathers #CapeFlora…
Common
Easily
Canning
There are lots of little pink heathers in fynbos. This common one is Erica labialis. It can be easily identified by the 2 lobed calyx that…
Butterflies
Flying
Insects
Butterflies are not common in the fynbos but this one, known as the Fynbos Blue (Tarucus thespis) is widespread throughout the region. It can be found flying at any time of the year but particularly in spring and autumn. #fynbos #butterfly #butterflies #lepidoptera #lycaenidae #Overberg #KleinRiverMountains #stanfordvillage #insects #insect
Scent
Pretty
Beautiful
Trichocephalus stipularis (Rhamnaceae), unflatteringly known as Dogface, produce a beautiful scent
Solitary
Dwarf
Scattered
Grounds
Appearance
Like yellow stars scattered on the ground, the dwarf bulb Pauridia monophylla appears before its solitary leaf (the leaf can just be seen…
