Eastern Cape Trip
Mary Sue Ittner (Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:22:05 PST)

Photos on the next Naude's Nek page are of plants from D to G. We saw
three species of Dierama and continued the challenge of photographing
flowers swaying or blowing in the wind. That is one reason there is
sometimes a hand in the photos of this genus. It also allows you to
see the flowers from the bottom. There are a lot of species of
Dierama and many of them look similar to me. I especially liked
Dierama trichorhizum which is a shorter plant than many of them. We
didn't see that mass display on the wiki page that was from a
previous Cameron trip. The ones we saw were growing in a wet marshy
area. This page includes more orchids. We saw three Disa species
including the plant of the day, Disa thodei. I thought the Disa
oreophila we saw was also quite lovely. We had seen a white spotted
version at Satansnek, but this one was pink without spots. I'm not
sure what subspecies it might have been. We saw several forms of
Eucomis autumnalis and two Gladiolus species including the very
beautiful Gladiolus saundersii which was also blooming in the garden
of the place we spent the night.

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