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April 26, 2024
09:39 PM SAST
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April 26, 2024
07:47 PM SAST
What
Dicots
(Class Magnoliopsida)
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April 26, 2024
03:35 PM SAST
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April 25, 2024
04:04 PM UTC
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August 21, 2021
11:39 PM CAT
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July 25, 2023
05:00 PM CAT
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March 8, 2024
06:58 AM UTC
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November 4, 2023
11:45 AM UTC
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July 30, 2018
11:17 AM EDT
Description
Found under a piece of cardboard on a wooded hillside.
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January 24, 2021
06:54 PM SAST
Description
Unfortunately the locality is approximate as the geotags were accidentally deleted. However; these were seen on Skeleton Gorge above 500m altitude. One of three subpopulations seen up the gorge.
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August 15, 2022
04:11 PM SAST
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May 30, 2014
07:32 AM SAST
Description
Checkered Beetle in Zantedeschia
Roughly 12mm long.
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February 17, 2024
07:27 PM UTC
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February 15, 2024
01:59 PM UTC
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February 4, 2024
03:26 PM UTC
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December 11, 2023
11:04 PM SAST
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December 7, 2023
10:08 PM SAST
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November 6, 2023
08:40 AM EST
Description
The owl was in a maple tree outside my front door. Well camouflaged, only saw it because 2 crows were noisily harassing it in the tree. Stayed for an hour, relocated to different branch, then to edge of garage roof. I live on an open field that was mowed last week so hawk and fox hunting activity has increased. Northern harrier seen 3 days in a row.
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December 3, 2023
08:00 PM SAST
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October 18, 2023
02:15 PM EDT
Description
Excited about this find today. Growing in a swampy area around Bundy Brook. There was at least one more individual, maybe more. Fairly sure it's D. clintoniana not D. cristata, because:
- fertile fronds relatively similar to vegetative fronds
- basal leaflets not broad triangular, but narrow triangular to elongate
- relatively large fern
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October 17, 2023
02:04 AM SAST
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August 30, 2023
08:16 AM SAST
Description
Spotted these while walking the dog.
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August 25, 2023
06:38 PM SAST
Description
Saw these from the car and just had to stop for them. Glad I did.
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August 17, 2023
12:26 PM EDT
Description
first time I've seen it flowering
keyed
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August 11, 2023
02:59 PM EDT
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August 5, 2023
12:55 PM EDT
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August 9, 2023
02:09 PM SAST
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August 9, 2023
10:41 AM UTC
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August 1, 2023
06:02 PM SAST
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June 26, 2023
05:47 PM EDT
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June 28, 2023
06:10 PM UTC
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June 22, 2023
07:52 PM CAT
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June 15, 2023
12:57 PM EDT
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April 15, 2019
10:40 AM EDT
Description
Male on top of Spotted Salamander
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June 8, 2023
03:10 PM SAST
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June 1, 2023
12:32 PM SAST
Description
Apologies for the terrible photos, I only had an old cellphone camera available to me at this time.
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May 19, 2023
11:48 AM EDT
Description
Post-fire response in plot burned earlier this spring. Excited to see what it looks like in September!
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May 16, 2023
09:31 PM CAT
Description
Basal leaves pointing downward. Not sure if that means anything.
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May 6, 2023
03:39 PM EDT
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May 5, 2023
02:02 PM CST
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May 15, 2023
07:17 PM CAT
Description
Placeholder. Will consult guide later
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May 11, 2023
06:36 AM EDT
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May 9, 2023
07:30 AM SAST
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May 7, 2023
08:15 AM UTC
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April 29, 2023
05:55 AM EDT
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May 1, 2023
01:09 PM EDT
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May 1, 2023
01:37 PM EDT
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May 1, 2023
01:40 PM EDT
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May 1, 2023
01:44 PM EDT
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April 29, 2023
01:09 PM EDT
Description
probably not identifiable past genus.
resting on garlic mustard leaf
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April 29, 2023
01:14 PM EDT
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April 28, 2023
02:06 PM EDT
Description
Iifer!
doesn't look like there's any records within 20 miles of here for this species. idk what else it could be though.
Large patch a few feet off the trail in swampy area. swamp cabbage and marsh violets surrounding it.
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April 14, 2023
09:59 PM EDT
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August 11, 2016
01:22 PM SAST
Description
Pyramid Heath: RIP1907
Pyramid Heath used to occur on western the Cape Flats, in wetlands on Cape Flats Sand Fynbos. As the city expanded its habitat was drained and filled in and built over. The date of extinction is unknown, but is nominally given as 1907. The full extent of its occurrence and its habitat preferences are unknown.
It does not appear to have survived in cultivation, and it now globally extinct.
Very little is known about this species. From Ericas of the Cape Peninsula (37):
Diagnostic for ID: four, cone-shaped flowers at ends of numerous side branches; the corolla is finely hairy under a lens.
Shrubs were erect, 0.5-1m tall, with fine 4-nate leaves.
Corolla was 7-10mm long, rose-coloured, with the stigma just protruding and the anthers hidden.
Flowering was April to May.
The booklet says it is a Peninsula endemic, but Flora of the Cape Peninsula said it was outside of the Peninsula on the western Cape Flats. It was recorded from Black River to Muizenberg, which is effectively the entire length of the southern suburbs - very similar to Erica verticillata in extent.
From the old collections this species had extremely floriferous plants (which makes it weird that it has not survived in cultivation!).
It was exterminated by housing, farming, exotics such as wattles and Kikuyu grass, and perhaps collecting (it was sold at the Adderley Street Flower Market for many years).
The last collection was in 1906 (but see Pillans below as 1907).
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Nothing is known about its pollinators, which were probably insects.
It is a member of the Teenage Heaths (section Ephebus) (or surf here), characterized by their "pubes" - or finely hairy corollas - with parts largely contained within the corolla and small sepals.
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April 11, 2023
08:34 PM SAST
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April 11, 2023
08:42 PM SAST
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April 11, 2023
03:09 PM SAST
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April 10, 2023
10:00 AM SAST
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December 29, 2013
07:00 AM SAST
Description
armanshoek 209
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April 7, 2023
04:30 PM SAST
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August 20, 2017
04:35 PM SAST
Description
Leptogium sp.
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January 3, 2023
01:12 AM EST
Description
Killdeer stack (Charadrius vociferus), Warren, RI
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July 19, 2022
05:26 PM SAST
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May 20, 2022
07:00 PM SAST
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March 13, 2023
08:00 PM SAST
Description
Not the Gull. The prey this time
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January 23, 2023
04:49 PM SAST
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January 23, 2023
04:49 PM SAST
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January 23, 2023
04:49 PM SAST
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January 19, 2023
08:47 PM SAST
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January 12, 2023
02:36 PM SAST
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January 12, 2023
12:33 PM SAST
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January 7, 2023
12:41 AM UTC
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December 8, 2022
07:19 PM CST
Description
Next plant family up the Angiosperm family tree after Amborella. Long thought to be a grass until DNA was sequenced. Such an illuminating species.
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July 3, 2022
07:22 PM CAT
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April 6, 2022
10:58 AM PDT
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December 6, 2022
06:24 PM SAST
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December 6, 2022
04:55 PM SAST
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December 6, 2022
02:03 PM SAST
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December 1, 2022
03:07 PM CST
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January 24, 2017
06:04 PM EST
Description
after the ice storm today
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November 17, 2022
12:26 AM SAST
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October 24, 2022
01:25 AM EDT
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December 10, 2021
07:05 AM SAST
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October 18, 2022
09:48 AM SAST
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October 17, 2022
04:53 PM SAST
Description
5 Adult plants - seemed like 2 males and 2 females (1 not flowering).
Will post obs of population about 100m lower, which was all but dead.
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October 16, 2022
04:39 PM SAST
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February 3, 2022
12:36 PM SAST
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October 12, 2022
07:56 PM UTC
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August 17, 2022
11:03 AM SAST
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August 15, 2022
01:46 PM SAST
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August 14, 2022
09:25 PM SAST
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May 23, 2019
01:06 AM HST
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August 9, 2022
10:08 PM SAST
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August 9, 2022
07:47 PM SAST
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August 4, 2022
12:08 PM SAST
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July 30, 2022
09:15 PM SAST
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July 31, 2022
11:51 PM SAST
Description
Just making sure it is variation of colour of Oxalis purpurea and not another oxalis species. A rather light white-pink colour variation, under the shade of an Acacia Saligna (which will be removed soon).
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July 27, 2022
09:13 PM SAST
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July 27, 2022
09:35 PM SAST
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July 27, 2022
12:23 PM SAST
Description
Thanks so much for showing me your insanely cool find, Louis. Big fan of your work in Milnerton!