WESTERN CAPE AND NAMAQUALAND, SOUTH AFRICA
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2012 PAGE ELEVEN

Day Seven - 1 September 2012: Nieuwoudtville, Quiver Tree Forest and Doorn River
Waterfall


   
Codon royenii
Boraginaceae
 
Arctotis fastuosa
Asteraceae


 
Dimorphotheca nudicaulis
Asteraceae



 
 
Bulbinella cauda-felis
Asphodelaceae
 
 
Gorteria diffusa
Asteraceae
Cadaba aphylla
Capparaceae
Babiana vanzijliae
Iridaceae
Albuca concordiana
Hyacinthaceae


 
Albuca cooperi
Asphodelaceae
 
Albuca maxima
Asphodelaceae


Quiver Tree Forest (or Kokerboom Woud) near Nieuwoudtville on Gannabos, a private farm owned by Merwe and Liezel van Wyk. The quiver tree, Aloe dichotoma, grows to some 20' tall and blooms from May to July. It is a somewhat smaller version of the extremely rare Aloe pillansii which grows in the Richtersveld and southern Namibia. It is called quiver tree because the bushmen use it to make quivers.



 
Aloe dichotoma
Xanthorrhoeaceae (Asphodelaceae)


 
Chlorophytum undulatum
Anthericaceae
 
 
 
Eriospermum sp.
Eriospermaceae


   
Ferraria divaricata
Iridaceae
 
 
Jamesbrittenia thunbergii
Scrophulariaceae


       
   
Euphorbia decussata
Euphorbiaceae		    
    Unidentified


 
Nemesia anisocarpa
Scrophulariaceae
 
 
Osteospermum pinnatum
Asteraceae
Tripteris clandestina
Asteraceae
 
 
Sarcocaulon crassicaule
Geraniaceae
 


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