Rhodes University Botanical Collections

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  Clifftop path on Sacramento trail, Schoenmakerskop

  Last house in top left-hand corner. Deryk Landman & Jennie Bennie in picture.
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  Clifftop path on Sacramento trail, Schoenmakerskop

  Note type of vegetation.
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  Sacramento Reserve, Schoenmakerskop, Port Elizabeth

  Note type of vegetation.
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  Sacramento Reserve, Schoenmakerskop, Port Elizabeth

  Note type of vegetation.
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  Sacramento Reserve, Schoenmakerskop, Port Elizabeth

  Note type of vegetation.
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  Entrance to Schoenmakerskop cave showing position in relation to the sea

  Lies in a hollow from which rainwater has no escape other than through the cave then out, presumably through seepage, beneath the scrub-covered dune behind into vlei behind the seashore rocks.
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  Close-up of entrance to Schoenmakerskop Cave in dunerock

  The height of cave interior allows standing room with bent head only.
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  Entrance to cave in low dune in wide open valley in Sacramento Reserve, Schoenmakerskop, Port Elizabeth

  Note heavy drapings of Cynanchum obovatum creeper.
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  Interior of small cave in Sacramento Reserve, Schoenmakerskop, Port Elizabeth

  Front covered by draping creeper-cloth. A Man can stand up fairly comfortably, sloping away to tunnel.
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  Schoenmakerskop after fire in November 2005

  Schoenmakerskop after fire in November 2005.
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  NMM University ground just north of Chelsea Point

  NMM University ground just north of Chelsea Point.
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  NMM University ground just north of Chelsea Point

  NMM University ground just north of Chelsea Point - Flat stony ground.
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  Bushveld behind NMMU on South side of road

  Bushveld behind NMMU on South side of road.
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  Bushveld behind NMMU on South side of road

  Bushveld behind NMMU on South side of road.
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  Bushveld behind NMMU on North side of road leading towards Admin Block

  Bushveld behind NMMU on North side of road leading towards Admin Block.
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  Schoenmakerskop after fire in November 2005

  Schoenmakerskop after fire in November 2005.
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  Recovery after fire of veld at NMMU campus.

  Recovery after fire of veld at NMMU campus.
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  Recovery after fire of veld at NMMU campus.

  Recovery after fire of veld at NMMU campus.
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  Looking west over a Small bay west of Schoenmakerskop, Port Elizabeth

  Portugese ship Sacramento was wrecked on 30 Jun 1647. Site of wreck shown by pillar, upper right. Nature reserve is to the right.
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  Last houses in the single row at Schoenmakerskop, Port Elizabeth

  The kop in the background. Foreground shows old cannon recovered from Portuguese ship SACRAMENTO wrecked at Gordon Beach west of Schoenmakerskop on 30 jun 1647, 350 years before this photo was taken.
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  Seaview, below Seaview Hotel, Port Elizabeth (27km west Port Elizabeth)

  Group of about 50 plants of Cyrtanthus speciosus in grassy Seaview, many others nearby.
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  Seaview, below Seaview Hotel, Port Elizabeth (27km west Port Elizabeth)

  Small group of Cyrtanthus speciosus on an open grassy area. Very dry at the time. Other similar groups nearby.
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  Seaview, 26km west Port Elizabeth central

  Satyrium hallackii, twelve plants in boggy ground beside the sea.
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  Seaview, Port Elizabeth

  Satyrium hallackii.
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  Seaview, Port Elizabeth

  Close-up of three Satyrium hallackii in marshy ground. Two dozen or more others in same marsh.