Eastern Cape Trip
Mary Sue Ittner (Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:30:58 PST)

I have added another page for Gaika's Kop.
<http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…>

It includes another orchid from the summit, Eulophia aculeata. Other
species seen on the summit or on the way there were Hesperantha
pulchra and Moraea elliotii. There was a Kniphofia there that they
decided mostly keyed out to Kniphofia uvaria even though this is
mostly a winter rainfall species.

On the lower part of the mountain we saw a nice form of Eucomis
autumnalis, Hypoxis argentea (also seen higher up), and two more
Kniphofia species, Kniphofia northiae and Kniphofia triangularis. K.
northiae was done flowering, but K. triangularis was quite wonderful.
It is such a striking species.

Mary Sue