Rhodes University Botanical Collections

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  Halfway down Southern slope of Coega Kop, Port Elizabeth

  Halfway down Southern slope of Coega Kop, Port Elizabeth.
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  Scene on top of the southeastern kop of Coega Kops, Port Elizabeth

  Scene on top of the southeastern kop of Coega Kops, Port Elizabeth.
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  Coega Kop, Port Elizabeth

  Single cluster of Strelitzia juncea, one of several there.
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  Eastern of two Coega Kops, Port Elizabeth

  Two clusters of Strelitzia juncea on kop. Western kop in distance, showing heavy quarring on southern flank. By railways for Port Elizabeth docks. Typical bushveld in rest of picture.
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  Roadside of old Coega-Swartkops road

  Cuspidea cernua in full flower against dense backing of bush typical of the area.
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  Roadside at old 515th milestone at Coega

  Showing Cuspidea cernua backed by typical dense bushveld.
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  Between CoegaKop and Coega River

  Typically dense bush with Aloe africana and alien prickly-pear. Almost certainly this will disappear when developments at Coega mouth are implemented.
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  Coega Kops

  View of east kop of the three Coega Kops showing scars of stone-quarry. The two large bushes in central-picture are Australian Wattles (rooikrans). The openness is almost certainly due to man's having removed dense bushveld.
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  Coega Kops

  Distant view of western of the three Coega Kops showing a stone-quarry used for making of harbour at Port Elizabeth. At right is a glimpse of the stone -quarry at the base of the eastern kop.
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  Rocky approach to summit of the eastern of the 3 Coega Kops with trig. Beacon and police radio station

  Aloe striata at its best; also much Euphorbia mauritanica and Euphorbia polygona without lateral spines, but in flower. William Massyn in picture.
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  Rocky summit of eastern of the 3 Coega Kops

  Showing typical vegetation. Coral aloe, A. striata in good flower. Police radio mast on summit beside trig-beacon.
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  East & north Coega kops, from East near Coega Railway

  Typical scene amongst bush. Coral aloe, Aloe striata in good flower. A bush of spekboom, Portulacara afra in top right corner.
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  View from slope of eastern of the 3 Coega Kops northward to the northern kop, distance of about 150m

  William Massyn & Helen Vanderplank botanising. Groot Winterhoek Mts. In the misty far distance.
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  Looking westwards from eastern kop to the western kop of the 3 Coega Kops

  A ghastly scar on western kop of a stone-quarry on its southern face from which material was taken for the Port Elizabeth harbour. Motherwell township in middle distance with the Bethelsdorp hills in the far distance. The flat bushveld between Motherwell & the kop will certainly disappear under Motherwell's expansion.
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  Looking southeast from top of easternmost Coega Kop over low bushy ground towards the Coega River mouth (indicated by a gap in the horizon hills, a distance of 6km)

  All this around will disappear under factory development with the proposed development of a harbour at Coega River mouth.
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  Northern of the 3 Coega Kops

  Typical bushiness on the southern approach to the summit. Coral aloes, Aloe striata now in good flower.
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  South slope of the northmost of the three Coega Kops, Port Elizabeth

  Several clumps of Euphorbia polygona, E. mauritanica, and a single E. ledienii. A few flowering Aloe striata, Coral aloe, Orthopterum coegana grows in this habitat.
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  Cotswold Park, Newton Park, Port Elizabeth

  Tritonia lineata & Babania patersoniae (white & blue) in a single patch. Many such patches were spread over the green.
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  Cotswold Park, Newton Park, Port Elizabeth

  Cluster of Tritonia lineata, one of many such clusters occuring over the green.
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  Cotswold Park, Newton Park, Port Elizabeth

  Nature of the green on which wild flowers appear seasonally. The small blue flowers in the foreground are Babania patersoniae of which there where many such patches over the green. In the left background are patches of Tritonia lineata.
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  Ecca Reserve, Ecca Pass, NE Grahamstown

  Good stretch of Strelitzia reginae plants just beyond the fence behind the Euphorbia. A count of 35 plants was made at this cluster. Only a few flowers at this time.
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  Top of Ecca Pass, NE Grahamstown

  Fine patch of Strelitzia reginae at roadside. Typical Ecca bushveld in distance, spoilt by hideous road-quarry and waterpipeline cut through the dense bush. MJ Collins.
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  Ecca Wild Flower Reserve, Ecca Pass, NE Grahamstown

  luster of Strelitzia reginae competing successfully with Ecca dense Valley Bush.
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  On road to Pluto's Vale, near Ecca Wildflower Reserve, NE Grahamstown, Albany

  Several clusters of Strelitzia reginae surviving in roadside scrub. Typical tall dense Valley Bush behind.
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  Looking north to the Suurberg Enon village

  Looking north to the Suurberg Enon village (founded 1816) on the Witte River under the foothills between Coerney & Kirkwood.