Aug 25, 2021
Gordons Bay Pincushion (Leucospermum bolusii), by madabotanik on iNaturalist. Found in Gordons Bay, Cape Town ZA.
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Gordons Bay Pincushion (Leucospermum bolusii), by madabotanik on iNaturalist. Found in Gordons Bay, Cape Town ZA.
Rain Daisy Dimorphotheca pluvialis N7 north of Citrusdal, South Africa by madabotanik
"I had become very fond of the Saint Anna during our long voyage ... We had spent many lively evenings together playing dominoes in the pleasant saloon, by the ruddy light of a good fire. ...what a magnificent scene I had in front of me, with the vast blue ocean stretching to the horizon. Only a few isolated icebergs, well eroded by the sea, drifted here and there ... This is where she should be, safe from danger. Under sail alone, with no assistance from her engines, she would have run well before the waves of this mighty sea."
- Valerian Albanov, "In The Land of White Death", 1917
Book Review: The Amaryllidaceae of Southern Africa
Book Review: The Amaryllidaceae of Southern Africa
by Eric Hsu While South America claims the distinction for the center of diversity for the amaryllis family, South Africa holds it own with 18 genera and approximately 240 species. Ever since the Europeans began navigating new oceanic trading routes in search of new colonies, the ornamental appeal of the South African Amaryllidaceae has been well known to gardeners. Foremost in advancing the…
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Book Review: Kniphofia: the complete guide by Christopher Whitehouse
Book Review: Kniphofia: the complete guide by Christopher Whitehouse
by Eric Hsu One outcome of the European colonization in South Africa was the establishment of botanic gardens and the affiliated research centers. Today Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden can trace its founding back to 1913 when a British expatriate Henry Harold Pearson, who had moved down in 1903 to chair the botany department at South African College (University of Cape Town), agreed to serve…
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Brunsvigia bosmaniae by Etwin Aslander Via Flickr: Photographed near the small town of Nieuwoudtville (Namaqualand, South Africa) When the rains have been good these barren grassy slopes are transformed into something quite spectacular! Brunsvigias are large, winter growing bulbs from the Amaryllis family. (Amaryllidaceae) The leaves come out after the flowers and lie flat on the ground just as they do in Haemanthus.