Best pictures from South Africa

[FlorentG]

Hello everybody!

I've made a little selection among the pictures I took in SA last year... envoy!


Euphorbia esculenta, Jansenville


Euphorbia symmetrica


Crassula corallina from petit Karo


Aloinopsis nearby


Aloe's leaves harvesting


Black cemetery...


White cemetery in De Rust


Haworthia bayeri, at De Rust


The little Karoo


Haworthia truncata


Ostrichs


Haworthia hybrid by G. Marx


Little funny bulb from Grahamstown


Gerhard Marx in his habitat


Tortoise


Haworthia emelyae, south Oudtshorn


Gibbaeum nuciforme, Anysberg mountains


Quartz fields in Anysberg nature reserve


Crassula proliferans


Gibbaeum haethii


Crassula pyramidalis


Little curly bulb


Looking at Euphorbia juglans


After bush fires, life reappears !


Conophytum minusculum var leipoldtii


Bulbine sp near Clanwilliam


Near the Giftberge...


Aloe mitriformis on top of Leeustert, a mountain which is difficult to access


Sunset


Argyroderma in the recent mud


Conophytum affinis uviforme, I'm still waiting to see the flowers to reveal his identity !


The first of the 3 flat tires !


Can opening !


Bob the beatle !


Anacampseros namaquensis, near Kliprand


Conophytum reconditum near Kliprand


Sunset in the bushmanland


Découverte de sauterelles étranges...


Rocks and sun


Sun and salt


Conophytum fulleri on Pellaberg


Conophytum limpidum


Summit of Pellaberg, Bushmanland


Dinteranthus puberulus near Poffadder


Spectakel pass, east Springbok


Othonna euphorbioides on a granite dome


Mesemb near Concordia


Conophytum pellucidum, Concordia


Conophytum X marnieraneum, east Springbok


Aloe dichotoma near Springbok


Spider bulbs


The employees house ...


Harrasberge... all the way up to C. chrisocruxum locality !





Anacampseros retusa


Breekriet under the rain! Crassula deceptor


Looking for C. hammeri in the quartz flats of Richtersveld


Trichocaulon and his seed capsules !


Conophytum flavum


Orbea sp at the feet of Black Face mountain


Conophytum jucundum


Conophytum bilobum on Black Face Mountain


Lithops affinis geyeri, a new population discovered by my father. Intermediate between L. geyeri, L. marmorata et L. helmutii


On Black Face Mountain !


Aloe pillansi and the view on Richtersveld



Conophytum pellucidum var terricolor, so little compared to our big walking shoes...


Conophytum roodiae and mosses symbiose


Granite dome

Everything is here: http://www.plantes-succulentes.fr/RSApictures.html


Florent

[AllanA]

Great photos Florent, Thanks for sharing them with us.

[iann]

Superb photos. Glad to see a Lithops snuck in I think its L. marmorata. Did you see any flowers or capsules, that would help a lot with an ID?

[FlorentG]

This Lithops is incredibly variable, some are geyeri's like, some marmorata's like and some helmuti's like! It's an odd intermediate thing according to S. Hammer... May be it is the father of all surrounding species ? As it has much less predators (see the density), it might not have to specialize and adapt to the environment:S

[Bill]

Excellent pictures Florent, thanks.

[iann]

That would be a fascinating Lithops population to study. No doubt there is much to be learned from it. L. marmorata is not generally considered closely related to L. geyeri and L. helmutii though, so a recent common ancestor or even a hybrid would be surprising. A simpler explanation might be that there are two or more species present in the population.

If L. geyeri and L. helmutii were both present, it might be expected that they would hybridise. The entire population might be hybrids, although other likely hybrid populations have just been assigned names in one species or the other. Some people would say they're both the same species anyway. Or it may be that the population only contains one of those two since they can appear very similar.

I guess its hard to say anything much until the flowers and capsules are studied.

[FlorentG]

Yes it would be nice to study this population ! I wrote an article about it for msg
I only collected a few seed capsules it was not the right season for harvesting them. I have only 1 seedling ...

[Apicra]

Hi Florent,

Wonderfully cheering pictures! You have captured some great portraits. Using a low, wide-angle view is definitely the best for plants.

I had no idea E. symmetrica could grow so tall!

Good to see Gerhard Marx again!

That's Crassula columnaris not subsp. proliferans.

Probably Anacampseros karasmontana near Kliprand with such rounded leaves.

Only Orbea is namaquensis in the RV.

Best wishes,
Derek Tribble,
London, UK

[Herts Mike]

Superb pictures Florent.

Thanks.

[Ashraf]

Beautiful photos Florent,
I am very glad for see succulent plants in habitat ,Thanks for sharing them.