Corymbium Sunday Flower Walk

Last week we found Dilatris pillansii open, so when I found this plant, I thought it was 'the other' Dilatris, D. corymbosa:

Corymbium glabrus var. glabrus

Back home, something looked wrong, too few petals for a start.

Caterpillar on flower

There was a caterpillar on each bunch of flowers! Fernkloof's November list of flowers came to the rescue as usual, with Corymbium glabrus var. glabrus. I put it on iSpot and I have an agreement already! http://www.ispotnature.org/node/754928

The Fernkloof list helped last week with the identity of the blue flower we found on the side of the path, Cape Bluebell Wahlenbergia capensis. The flowers are all gone this week, and it took some careful searching to find the spent flowers today!

Spent flower of Cape Bluebell Wahlenbergia capensis

We were astonished at the size of the berries on this Oftia (or is it a Teedia?). This was in the unburnt area. It's pleasing to find new plants of one or the other coming up all over the burnt area. The berries are about 10 to 12mm in diameter and the plant was completely covered in them!

Berries on Oftia or Teedia

Lanaria lanata were some of the first leaves to come up after the fire, and many of them! They are looking magnificent at the moment!

Lanaria lanata

You have to look carefully in all the fluff for the actual flowers!

Lanaria lanata flowers in the fluff

Here's a Pea we remember growing here before. It has also re-grown completly since the fire, now 9½ months ago.

Unknown Pea

Flowers up close:

Cluster of Pea flowers

And a hitch-hiker:

Ladybird on Pea

This fungus was growing on a burnt pine stump:

Fungus on burnt pine stump

And that brought us to a little Pelargonium with lemon-scented leaves! We've marked its position so we'll go back and see what the flowers look like.

Scented-leaf Pelargonium

The big Pelargoniums are about to burst into flower, the first few flowers are out:

First flowers open on the big Pelargoniums

We saw this amazing Wachendorfia from far away!

Magnificent stand of Wachendorfia paniculata

Flower up close

This bee was visiting every flower!

Flower with honey-bee

We were keen to check up on the development of the opening flowers on the 'new' stand of Agapanthus walshii:

Agapanthus walshii, just opening

Very satisfying! But you can see how few flowers are in each bud!

Another bud just opening

In the stand where before the fire there were twenty-something flowers, we counted 13 buds so far:

13 buds in this stand already!

Another, all on its own:

One on its own, with bud

There are still plenty of these that we think are Pseudoselago spuria to be seen, this one was alive with butterflies.

Pseudoselago spuria with butterflies!

An isolated stand of a different Daisy:

Unknown Daisy

The spent flower in the foreground above, looks like this:

Spent flower

And from the underside.... any ideas?

Flower from the back

We're pretty certain these are Tar Peas, Bolusafra bituminosa:

Tar Pea Bolusafra bituminosa

These flowers are about 1.2 metres from the root of the plant:

This Tar Pea has spread 1.2m from the root already!

The jury is still out whether these Lachenalia are L. montana:

Lachenalia montana? 

How to photograph a Five Toothed Baboon Cabbage Othonna quinquedentata? Against the sky!

Othonna quinquedentata, against the sky!

The flowers are so tiny compared with the rest of the plant!

... with its tiny flowers!

Here's a Purple Powder Puff Pseudoselago serrata, one of the first of many, I'm sure!

Pseudoselago serrata, Purple Powder Puff

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