We're still no closer to finding a name for the Protea-type (?) which we discovered in the forest last week, but first some others.
These ericas (?) give a splash of rusty brown with the green:
Detail at the top end of the Saltera sarcocolla flower:
Magnificent Restio:
It was blustery weather so I had to hold the stem, but it gives an idea how small the bloom is. Each leaf has a three-pointed end with a yellow tip on each:
There's a bud or smaller flower just behind this one on the right.
There are buds or smaller flowers singly on other stems;
The flash picked up the furriness on the leaves here:
The whole plant isn't too impressive, we've been walking right past it for years. The flowers have shown no development since last week.
Then to the other unknown, just to make sure it's not a Struthiola:
The white ones are spent and those on the right have still to open.
Definitely no eight white petals, so what is it? This lichen on the sandstone caught our eyes:
More Mountain dahlia, Liperia splendens, of the pea family but it is pollinated by the sunbirds.
Sure enough, this one is close to a big stand of Kings, Protea cynaroides. In this area, the leaves are badly spotted:
Also nearby is this magnificent Othonna quinquedendata, normally difficult to photograph because they grow tall and gangly:
So even in the dead of winter, there's lots to find!
:-) A
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