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KAROO PLANTS
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Posting photographs of plants in the Karoo, South Africa.
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Cucumis africanus
(English: wild cucumber, wild gherkin;
Afrikaans: wilde agurkie, doringkomkommertjie)

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Cucumis africanus (English: wild cucumber, wild gherkin; Afrikaans: wilde agurkie, doringkomkommertjie) https://pza.sanbi.org/cucumis-africanus
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
(English: common ice plant, crystalline ice plant, rosa de jericho;
Afrikaans: brakslaai, brakvy, noeta, olifantslaai, slaai, slaaibos, slaaibossie, soutslaai, volstruisslaai)

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Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (English: common ice plant, crystalline ice plant, rosa de jericho; Afrikaans: brakslaai, brakvy, noeta, olifantslaai, slaai, slaaibos, slaaibossie, soutslaai, volstruisslaai) https://pza.sanbi.org/mesembryanthemum-crystallinum
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Monsonia crassicaulis
(English: Bushman's Candle;
Afrikaans: grootkersbos)

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November 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Rushia spinosa
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Pachypodium succulentum
(English: star-flower thick-foot, porcupine-kambroo;
Afrikaans: bergkambroo, bobbejaankambroo, bobbejaankos, ystervarkkambroo, ystervarkkos, dikvoet)

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November 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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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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November 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Corms of the Ferraria ferrariola
(English: Karoo ferraria;
Afrikaans: Karoo steriris, Spinnekopblom)

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November 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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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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November 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Cannomois scirpoides
(English: Kouga Fountainreed;
Afrikaans: Kouga fonteinriet)

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November 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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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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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.
November 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Pelargonium carnosum
(English: fleshy-stalk pelargonium;
Afrikaans: vetplantmalva)

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November 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Galenia africana
(English: Yellow bush;
Afrikaans: Brakkraalbossie, Geelbos, Muisbos)

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October 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Helichrysum splendidum
(English: Cape gold;
Afrikaans: geelsewejaartjie)

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October 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Crassula muscosa
(English: shoelaces;
Afrikaans: skoenveters)

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October 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Galium tomentosum
(English: Woolly Bedstraw;
Afrikaans: kleefgras)

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October 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Ruschia approximata
(English: Cape vygie;
Afrikaans: beesvygie)

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October 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Lessertia annularis
(English: Toxic Pod Lessertia;
Afrikaans: krimpsiektebos)

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October 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Gazania lichtensteinii
(English: yellow calendula:
Afrikaans: geelgousblom)

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October 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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October 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Nymania capensis
(English: Chinese lanterns;
Afrikaans: Klapperbos)

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October 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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October 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Crassula rupestris
(English: kebab bush, concertina plant;
Afrikaans: sosatiebossie, sosaties, bergkraaltjies, konsertinabossie)

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October 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Eriocephalus grandiflorus
(English: wild rosemary;
Afrikaans: Kapokbos)

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October 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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September 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Hirpicium alienatum - synonym: Gorteria alienata.
(English: Karoo Hair-daisy, Shaggy Daisy;
Afrikaans: Haarbos, Kleihaarbossie, Meerjarige Gousblom)

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September 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM