Marry Sue, I envy your trip! The H. albiflos image is not of H. albiflos - I doesn't seem to be a Haemanthus at all. Perhaps a Scadoxus? -|<ipp > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:34:36 -0800 > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > From: msittner@mcn.org > Subject: Re: [pbs] Eastern Cape Trip > > Although much of the Eastern Cape is grassland, we found a lot of > plants growing on rock faces or in crevices in rocks. Some of these > were impossible to get close enough to photograph. Yesterday I showed > pictures of a couple of plants growing on rocks. Today there are some > we saw in Glen Avon. > > The first was selected as the plant of the day, Scadoxus puniceus. We > already have it well pictured on the wiki, but here are a few more of > it growing in rock crevices or near rocks (second row of photos). > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> > > In the same area another plant growing on rocks close enough to > photograph was Haemanthus albiflos (last photo). > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> > > Yesterday I referenced an Agapanthus praecox. Here are a couple more > habitat photos of it. The one in Glen Avon was impossible to get very > close to. Also on the rocks was a Cyrtanthus, probably C. macowanii > but the experts had interesting discussions each evening about what > we saw and it seems C. macowanii and C. epiphyticus in the wild are > challenging to tell apart. I'll be adding more photos of the two of > them later where we were close enough to get a better photo. The > other photos of Agapanthus praecox were taken at Gaika's Kop. (first > row of photos) It does seem like some of the Agapanthus praecox we > saw in the wild have spectacular views. > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> > > Finally at Glen Avon we also saw growing in a rock crevice, > Chlorophytum comosm. > <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> > > Mary Sue > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/