KAROO PLANTS

Pachypodium succulentum
(English: star-flower thick-foot, porcupine-kambroo;
Afrikaans: bergkambroo, bobbejaankambroo, bobbejaankos, ystervarkkambroo, ystervarkkos, dikvoet)

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Rushia spinosa, in the Karooveld, North of Prince Albert, Great Karoo, Western Cape, South Africa.
(English: thorny vygie, spiny ruschia;
Afrikaans: doringvygie)

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Corms of the Ferraria ferrariola
(English: Karoo ferraria;
Afrikaans: Karoo steriris, Spinnekopblom)

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Cadaba aphylla
(English: leafless cadaba, leafless wormbush, black storm, desert spray;
Afrikaans: swartstorm, bobbejaanarm, bloustam, doubos, douwurmbos, gifhoutjie, rooistorm, stormbos)

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Cannomois scirpoides
(English: Kouga Fountainreed;
Afrikaans: Kouga fonteinriet)

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Othonna cerarioides Magoswana and J.C. Manning is described as a new species from Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province of South Africa. It is an erect shrub with rod‐like stems and branches, bearing numerous spur‐shoots with obovate‐oblanceolate leaves clustered at the tips, and up to nine disciform capitula per spur‐shoot. Othonna cerarioides is anomalous in the genus in that the style of some of the disc florets is bifid. Othonna is diagnosed within subtribe Othonnineae by female‐sterile disc florets with simple (or very rarely minutely bifid) styles. The disc florets in the closely related genus Hertia are bisexual with well branched styles.

Othonna cerarioides (Asteraceae: Othonnineae), a new species from Namaqualand, South Africa
2020.
(English: Little Quiver Shrub, Wax-leaf Shrub, Richtersveld Waxbush;
Afrikaans: Richterswasboom, Klein kokerbossie, Wasboompie)

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Pelargonium carnosum
(English: fleshy-stalk pelargonium;
Afrikaans: vetplantmalva)

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Galenia africana
(English: Yellow bush;
Afrikaans: Brakkraalbossie, Geelbos, Muisbos)

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Helichrysum splendidum
(English: Cape gold;
Afrikaans: geelsewejaartjie)

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Crassula muscosa
(English: shoelaces;
Afrikaans: skoenveters)

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Galium tomentosum
(English: Woolly Bedstraw;
Afrikaans: kleefgras)

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Ruschia approximata
(English: Cape vygie;
Afrikaans: beesvygie)

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Those red hot pokers are Aloe ferox (bitter aloe, red aloe) 😃

Lessertia annularis
(English: Toxic Pod Lessertia;
Afrikaans: krimpsiektebos)

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Gazania lichtensteinii
(English: yellow calendula:
Afrikaans: geelgousblom)

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Nymania capensis
(English: Chinese lanterns;
Afrikaans: Klapperbos)

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Crassula rupestris
(English: kebab bush, concertina plant;
Afrikaans: sosatiebossie, sosaties, bergkraaltjies, konsertinabossie)

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Eriocephalus grandiflorus
(English: wild rosemary;
Afrikaans: Kapokbos)

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Hirpicium alienatum - synonym: Gorteria alienata.
(English: Karoo Hair-daisy, Shaggy Daisy;
Afrikaans: Haarbos, Kleihaarbossie, Meerjarige Gousblom)

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Euphorbia braunsii
(English: Common vingerpol;
Afrikaans: Vingerpol)

Euphorbia braunsii produces a poisonous white milky sap that may cause burns or irritation if it comes into contact with the skin or eyes.

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Ferraria crispa
(English: starfish Iris;
Afrikaans: krulletjie)

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Salsola aphylla
(English: saltbush, lye ganna, lye bush;
Afrikaans: gannabos, asbos, loogganna)

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This species is declining across its range due to habitat loss and degradation, except for a 120 ha private nature reserve established to protect part of the population.

Bijlia dilatata
(English: Prince Albert Vygie;
Afrikaans: Prince Albert Vygie)

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