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Botanical Society of South Africa
... Links subs here Contact Us subs here Environmental Education Sea Plants Poster Project Heritage Circle subs here Home Conservation Unit - Projects Projects & Activities: Cape Lowlands S.K.E.P. Conservation Stewardship Cape Flats Nature Wine & Conservation Bushmanland Conservation Policy & Legislation Projects The Conservation Unit is leading a suite of projects that fall under our three focus ...
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Botanical Society of South Africa
... ourselves. Click on any link to open the page in a new window. African links Cape Nature Conservation Planning Unit, WCNCB WWF South Africa IUCN - Southern Africa South African National Biodiversity ... Action for People and the Environment (C.A.P.E.) City of Cape Town - Environmental Information Cape Flats Nature State of the Environment South Africa Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism ...
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Native Orchid Society of South Australia
... Forrest on butterflies 25th July 2006 - General meeting – Associate Professor Chris Daniels – Co-editor of “Adelaide: Nature of a City” 22nd August 2006 - General meeting – Wayne Turville of Aust. Orchid Nursery. 16-17 ... searching. This consisted of two habitats, viz. mallee/heath on sandy rises (area 8) and flats of open heath with some exposed limestone (area 9). The mallee/heath was not searched ...
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CSSA Newsletters #12
... is awe-inspiring. Colorful beetles, antelope and other desert creatures roam about these arid dunes. The Welwitschia flats lie to the east of the old German town of Swakopmund; it is the best area to ... on the candelabra". The reserve that Mr. Gray refers to was declared a reserve by the old Cape Nature Conservation department only in 1993. Made up of approximately 4,000 A. dichotoma specimens, the ...
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CSSA Newsletters #21
... cactus seedlings that the plants hung over the sides. However, John wasn't really interested in seedling flats. He was interested in the bare rooted plants. There was this one outdoor nursery that had ... being watered with warm water in winter makes them happy. Sunlight I decided to let Mother Nature provide the sunlight and have shade cloth inside provide the shadows for the shade loving plant. In ...
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Eucalyptus globulus Labill
... but is easily controlled. Pythium and Rhizoctonia spp. have also caused damping-off in containers and flats, particularly when old seed was used (16). Fusarium spp. have destroyed quantities of stored seed in ... one of the world's most valuable windbreak trees because of its windfirmness and the unpalatable nature of its seedlings to grazing animals (8,18,19). Because of its ability to sprout along ...
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Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh
... in the study ranged from well-drained sandy loams on levees or terraces to poorly drained, wet, silty flats. Green ash was the dominant species in these stands, comprising about 80 percent of the total stand basal ... 10-cm (4-in) top may extend to 12 m (40 ft) in younger stands. Its pioneer nature and ability to grow rapidly in relatively pure, even-aged stands indicate green ash is well suited for ...
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Adenium multiflorum
... in sandy soil or in alluvium in rocky habitats, in dry woodland or open grassland, on brackish flats. They are found mainly in frost-free areas of the lowveld and eastern parts of southern Africa ... . The plant has thick, tuberous underground stems, helping it to survive long periods without water. In nature the plants propagate by means of seed, which are adapted for wind dispersal by having tufts of ...
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Cliffortia ferruginea
... followed by small, dry, encapsulated seeds. Distribution and Habitat It is found on flats and lower slopes, usually near water, from the Cape Peninsula to Port Elizabeth . Derivation of name and historical aspects The genus ... , hence the common name teringtee. The glas in the common name glastee refers to the brittle nature of the stems and branches, i.e. as brittle as glass, while the tee refers to ...
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Articles
... Bulbine torta is tuberous. The plants have several wiry leaves that are normally tightly coiled in nature, but more loosely coiled in cultivation. The yellow or light-orange flowers have reflexed tepals and ... they most definitely never flowered. The soil in the garden is the natural sand of the Cape Flats with a thin overlay of local composted soil. While these two specimens probably originated from ...
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