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South African Native Plants

Help with identifying plants needed

18 years ago

Dear all

While on a recent trip to Cape Town, I photographed some plants on Table Mountain and in the Kirstenbosch botanical gardens. Since they were completely foreign to me, I did note some of their names but not all. Unfortunately the latter group included two that I have had a really hard time identifying post-journey, and hence I was wondering whether anyone on this forum could help me.

Pictures of the plants can be found on the following URLs:

The first one:

http://geografia.univ.gda.pl/kat/kge/eng/p1.jpg

http://geografia.univ.gda.pl/kat/kge/eng/p2.jpg

and the second one (from Table Mountain)

http://geografia.univ.gda.pl/kat/kge/eng/p3.jpg

Sincere thanks in advance.

Stefan

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Comments (4)

bambi_too
18 years ago
Stefan, try posting you photos here. This one is based in SA and many of the members have visited that garden. My friend Heinie was there recently.

Here is a link that might be useful: The Gardener Forum
wanda
18 years ago
p3 looks like a watsonia
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akai
17 years ago
Did you manage to id these plants?
bahia
17 years ago
The first photo is a Leucospermum species, and the second one is definitely a Watsonia species.

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