While looking over my folder of things I intended to add to the wiki but never did as there has never been enough time, I found some photos we took when we visited South Africa in 2006. It was our last day in South Africa and we had packed a lunch and set out with Rod and Rachel Saunders to do the Lion's Head loop path trail in Table Mountain National Park. I'm attaching a photo from that day. (Sorry I missed the top of the mountain). This is a wonderful hike with great views and we saw a lot of interesting flowers as well. Many of the photos of them I put on the wiki at an earlier date. Towards the end of the hike we came across some interesting Pauridia (think Spiloxene) flowers. I was fascinated by the variations. There are a number of species of Pauridia (Spiloxene) listed in the Wild Flowers of the Table Mountain National Park field guide. Two of them flower in September, Pauridia capensis (Spiloxene capensis) and Pauridia aquatica (Spiloxene aquatica). I wondered if those flowers could be natural hybrids of the two species or maybe just variations of Pauridia capensis. I've added photos to the wiki: https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… At this time when we approach Thanksgiving in the United States, I'm grateful that I was able to spend time with Rod and Rachel and for nature and the amazing flowers you can find when you are out hiking. Mary Sue -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Hikers-TableMountain_2006.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 394971 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
