Commiphora caryaefolia - Commiphora woodii
Item
- Title
- Commiphora caryaefolia - Commiphora woodii
- Creator
- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date
- May-63
- Description
- Caption "Close up of pip and aril exposed after the fleshy covering has fallen apart or been opened by birds. Each of the rounded fruits open at a central cleavage line. As soon as a bird sees the slightest crack, it squeezes the fruit, making the two halves fall. Bird then eats pip plus scarlet aril and later regurgitates pip. Parrots however eat the flesh too, very wastefully. Kei Road, King Wms Town. May 1963. Commiphora caryaefolia."
- Subject/s
- Commiphora caryaefolia - Commiphora woodii- South Africa -- Photographs
- Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language
- English
- Type
- mixed material
- photographs
- landscape photographs
- Extent
- Photograph (b&w) 21 x 16 cm (accompanied by text)
- Format
- jpg
- Source
- Original materials held by the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University
- Archive
- Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University
- Rights
- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Use/re-use
- Copyright may subsist in this material. Permission to reproduce, publish, or distribute must be obtained from the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119279
- Item sets
- C.J. Skead Photograph Collection
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