Rhodes University Botanical Collections

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  Salt marshes south of Swartkops River mouth and just inland of low dune system

  Carbon Black factory in background. Patches of Syncarpa striatum (ex Helichrysum striatum) dotted among the coarse hedge-like growth.
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  Saltmarsh flats near Swartkops River mouth, Port Elizabeth

  Yellow folliage of Disphyma crassifolium with contrasting shades of other saltmarsh, including reds of Salicornia near the Carbon Black factory, Port Elizabeth. No flowers on this patch of Disphyma.
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  Saltmarsh flats near Swartkops River mouth, Port Elizabeth

  Spread of Disphyma crassifolium (Mesem). Just behind the dunes on the seaside Carbon Black (Algorax) factory.
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  Saltmarshes beside Swartkops River looking south towards Swartkops Village

  Chimneys of Municipal Power Station in background. Salicornia in red colour phase.
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  Chatty River, Port Elizabeth

  Salicornia-covered flats, in red phase. Carbon Black factory in background.
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  Swartkops Saltmarshes on right bank near mouth of river

  Showing mixed colours of drying marsh plants behind the row of low dunes.
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  Swartkops River, near Perseverence

  Dry vlei, heavily-grassed and covered in flowering Senecio iniquidens after a good winter season.
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  Swartkops River, near Perseverence

  Vlei deliberately filled by stormwater from factory sites & townships to right of picture. Used by local wildfowl.
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  Redhouse, Port Elizabeth

  Exceptionally fine flowering of a single Pachypodium succulentum plant. Several other such plants in flower, none as good as this.
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  Redhouse, Port Elizabeth

  Fine flowering display by a single plant of Alectra capensis in grass. Many other Alectra plants in flower nearby, none as good as this. Note Glottyphyllum plants next to the Alectra.
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  Redhouse, Port Elizabeth

  Typical massed flowering of Gasteria bicolor plants in scrub-bushveld. A common plant in this type of veld.
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  The Swartkops River valley at Redhouse

  Typical scrub-bushveld here & elsewhere in the vicinity. Soon to be destroyed under urban development. Note the variey of close-packed plant-life. Photo taken in a good season.
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  Outskirts of Redhouse Village, Swartkops River valley, Port Elizabeth

  Group of 10 individual plants of Alectra capensis in veld, others in the vicinity. This area due for destruction under urban sprawl.
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  Southern outskirt of Redhouse Village, Swartkops River valley, Port Elizabeth

  Typical grassveld, with patches of dense thorny scrub-bush growing nearby. Plants of yellow Alectra capensis visible. Swartkops-Uitenhage road in background passing over railway sideline to factory sites beyond. This area due for destruction under urban development.
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  Commonage ground southwest of Redhouse, Swartkops River valley, Port Elizabeth

  Pelargonium peltatum swarming over low-growing scrub-bushes. This area due for destruction under the urban sprawl in the future.
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  Redhouse, Port Elizabeth, North end of village

  Dense patch of seeding Rooigrass, Themeda triandra. Rusty colour shows why called rooigrass or red grass. Dense aloes in mid photo, house in background.
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  Redhouse, Port Elizabeth, North end of village

  2 plants of Zygophyllum morgzana with display of yellow seedpods giving initial imprression of flowers. Probably be put under housing in the future.
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  Immediately north of Redhouse village, Swartkops valley, Port Elizabeth

  Typical dense stand of aloes in natural veld. Mostly A. ferox in foreground with tall A. africana in background. This type of veld may well be built on in the future.
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  Outskirts of Redhouse Village, Port Elizabeth

  Fine flowering specimen of Stapelia grandiflora, of which several other plants grew nearby. This plant had 7 flowers with 22 buds out of the picture.
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  Perseverence, on dry saltmarsh near ebb-and-flow of Swartkops River

  2 of many patches of Vingerpol, Euphorbia inerme, in good flower.
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  Perseverence, on dry saltmarsh near ebb-and-flow of Swartkops River

  An exceptionally fine stool of Vingerpol in full, fine, flower, Euphorbia inerme. Surrounded by Salicornia leaves in the red phase.
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  Near Perseverence factories, between Redhouse & Preseverence, Port Elizabeth

  William Massyn among several good stands of Euphorbia ledienii in full flower with bushclumps interspersed. Swartkops River valley about 500m north of the developing factory sites. This area may well soon be absorbed by urban sprawl.
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  Immediately north of the kast houses at Redhouse village, Swartkops valley, Port Elizabeth

  Showing density of Aloe ferox growth in veld. Such density occurs elsewhere in the area.
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  At ebb-and-flow of the Swartkops River just below Perseverence, the farm formally known until about 1820 as Zwartkops Wagen Drift

  Waggon traffic had perforce to cross the river above the ebb-and-flow.
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  Slope up from the North (left) bank of the Swartkops River at Perseverence

  Astonishing density of Aloe pluridens plants. Such densities are a feature of the whole length of the southfacing escarpment. In the photo is William Massyn, warden of the Van Staden's Wild Flower Reserve.