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KAROO PLANTS
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Posting photographs of plants in the Karoo, South Africa.
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Oct 9
Nymania capensis
(English: Chinese lanterns;
Afrikaans: Klapperbos)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 2d
Corms of the Ferraria ferrariola
(English: Karoo ferraria;
Afrikaans: Karoo steriris, Spinnekopblom)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 3d
Cadaba aphylla
(English: leafless cadaba, leafless wormbush, black storm, desert spray;
Afrikaans: swartstorm, bobbejaanarm, bloustam, doubos, douwurmbos, gifhoutjie, rooistorm, stormbos)

pza.sanbi.org/cadaba-aphylla
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 7d
Cannomois scirpoides
(English: Kouga Fountainreed;
Afrikaans: Kouga fonteinriet)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 7d
Othonna cerarioides (Asteraceae: Othonnineae), a new species from Namaqualand, South Africa
2020.
(English: Little Quiver Shrub, Wax-leaf Shrub, Richtersveld Waxbush;
Afrikaans: Richterswasboom, Klein kokerbossie, Wasboompie)

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Othonna cerarioides Magoswana and J.C. Manning is described as a new species from Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It is an erect shrub with rod‐like stems and branches, bearing numerous spur‐shoots with obovate‐oblanceolate leaves clustered at the tips, and up to nine disciform capitula per spur‐shoot. Othonna cerarioides is anomalous in the genus in that the style of some of the disc florets is bifid. Othonna is diagnosed within subtribe Othonnineae by female‐sterile disc florets with simple (or very rarely minutely bifid) styles. The disc florets in the closely related genus Hertia are bisexual with well branched styles.
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 7d
Pelargonium carnosum
(English: fleshy-stalk pelargonium;
Afrikaans: vetplantmalva)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 13d
Galenia africana
(English: Yellow bush;
Afrikaans: Brakkraalbossie, Geelbos, Muisbos)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 15d
Helichrysum splendidum
(English: Cape gold;
Afrikaans: geelsewejaartjie)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 17d
Crassula muscosa
(English: shoelaces;
Afrikaans: skoenveters)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 17d
Galium tomentosum
(English: Woolly Bedstraw;
Afrikaans: kleefgras)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 20d
Ruschia approximata
(English: Cape vygie;
Afrikaans: beesvygie)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 22d
Those red hot pokers are Aloe ferox (bitter aloe, red aloe) 😃
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 25d
Lessertia annularis
(English: Toxic Pod Lessertia;
Afrikaans: krimpsiektebos)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 25d
Gazania lichtensteinii
(English: yellow calendula:
Afrikaans: geelgousblom)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · 26d
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Oct 9
Nymania capensis
(English: Chinese lanterns;
Afrikaans: Klapperbos)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Oct 3
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Oct 3
Crassula rupestris
(English: kebab bush, concertina plant;
Afrikaans: sosatiebossie, sosaties, bergkraaltjies, konsertinabossie)

pza.sanbi.org/crassula-rup...
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Oct 3
Eriocephalus grandiflorus
(English: wild rosemary;
Afrikaans: Kapokbos)

redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?...

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Sep 29
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Sep 28
Hirpicium alienatum - synonym: Gorteria alienata.
(English: Karoo Hair-daisy, Shaggy Daisy;
Afrikaans: Haarbos, Kleihaarbossie, Meerjarige Gousblom)

africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/spe...
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Sep 27
Euphorbia braunsii
(English: Common vingerpol;
Afrikaans: Vingerpol)

Euphorbia braunsii produces a poisonous white milky sap that may cause burns or irritation if it comes into contact with the skin or eyes.

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Sep 22
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Sep 21
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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Sep 19
Ferraria crispa
(English: starfish Iris;
Afrikaans: krulletjie)

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KAROO PLANTS @karooplants.bsky.social · Sep 19
Salsola aphylla
(English: saltbush, lye ganna, lye bush;
Afrikaans: gannabos, asbos, loogganna)

redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?...

operationwildflower.net/index.php/al...
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