Yellow Sunday Flower Walk

There's not much colour in the veld at the moment, but what there is, is predominantly yellow.

As usual, a bug in a Sour Fig Carpobrotus edulis flower.

Sour Fig Carpobrotus edulis

The yellow daisies are beginning to come out, this one we think is a Euryops, because the description of the plant is that the leaves are fern-like. There are a hundred to choose from and we haven't pinpointed this one yet!

Euryops spp? 

But they're on rations, only one flower per plant at this stage!

Euryops spp? plant with single flower

There are carpets of yellow Oxalis, strange we only saw a few of the pink ones.

Yellow Oxalis

Then our greeny-yellow Erica coccinea:

Erica coccinea

Even the mushrooms were yellow! These are probably Sulphur Tufts Hypholoma fasciculare, not for eating!

Sulphur Tufts Hypholoma fasciculare? 

Here is a plant with yellow flowers we've seen before but not identified yet:

Unknown fynbos plant with yellow flowers

The daisy-type flowers mostly have three petals, but I found them with two and four. The anthers seem to have two rings, opposite one another near the ends.

Flower detail of plant above

Restios again, here's pop & mom Elegia persistens. Is that baby in the foreground?

Elegia persistens, male left, and female right

Anina explained this phenomenon on the restios, where there is non-reed sterile foliage at the base to assist the photosynthesis, particularly after a fire.

Sterile foliage at the base of a Restio

We don't know this bush, which has foliage (but not the smell) like a cedrus:

Unknown shrub

Flower detail, what is it?

Flower detail of above shrub

It was good to see these fruits on an Erica:

Fruits on Erica

We went up to where the felling has being going on, to check on our 'charges'. We had to pull more pine branches off this Mountain Dahlia Liparia splendens, which will probably flourish now. It has some Agapanthus growing beneath it, but we're not sure which type. We've never seen them flower, maybe they will now in the sunlight?

Mountain Dahlia Liparia splendens

'Our' Leucospermum oleifolium hasn't fared well since we last checked. It took some finding under felled trees, some branches are broken and dead.

Leucospermum oleifolium damaged by felling

After pulling some logs and branches off, things loked a bit better. Let's hope it survives, we've been watching it since we discovered it about three years ago!

Leucospermum oleifolium exposed again

We found the ring of stones we packed around the Fire Lily Cyrtanthus ventricosa we spotted last year. No problem there!

Ring of stones around Fire Lily Cyrthanthus ventricosa

There are some interesting rock formations visible now with the pines gone!

Interesting rock formation

We were delighted to spot yet another Mountain Dahlia Liparia splendens in the lee of a rocky outcrop. Most have finished flowering, but this is completely covered in blooms!

Mountain Dahlia Liparia splendens in full flower

Mountain Dahlia Liparia splendens flower

Next to it, a delicate Lobelia:

Lobelia spp flower

Looking glossy in the sunlight was this Saltera sarcocolla:

Saltera sarcocolla flower

More yellow Daisies, this one is a pest on the farm.

Daisy 

We had a good look for 'our' single Campylostachys cernua, kindly identified by Lee Burman. We couldn't find any others nearby, nor on our walk at all, now we're 'tuned in' to it. This is growing right on the middelmannetjie of one of the 'red' roads. 

Campylostachys cernua in the middle of the road

We missed it flowering, but it's pleasing to see the new growth:

New growth on Campylostachys cernua

Also all along the road, in the middle, are these Lobelia tomentosa which were a welcome contrast to the yellow of most of the other flowers!

Lobelia tomentosa

:-) A

PS. If you've missed any of our walks, they're all on http://sundayflowerwalks.blogspot.com/