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
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Re: Best pictures from South Africa
Great photos Florent, Thanks for sharing them with us.
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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?
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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
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Excellent pictures Florent, thanks.
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Mainly Haworthia and Gasteria, a few other South African succulents and the odd spiky thing.
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Mainly Haworthia and Gasteria, a few other South African succulents and the odd spiky thing.
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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.
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.
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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 ...
I only collected a few seed capsules it was not the right season for harvesting them. I have only 1 seedling ...
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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
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
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Re: Best pictures from South Africa
Superb pictures Florent.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Re: Best pictures from South Africa
Beautiful photos Florent,
I am very glad for see succulent plants in habitat ,Thanks for sharing them.
I am very glad for see succulent plants in habitat ,Thanks for sharing them.