Dense patch of parasitic galls on seed pods of Acacia longifolia. The whole tree was as heavily infected. [NOTE: This looks more like a fungal infection on Acacia saligna (M Timm Hoffman 8 Sep 2006)].
Encroachment of alien Black Wattle, in flower, into fynbosveld. Indigenous Metalasia and Chrysanthemoides in front, flowering wattle centrally with massed Rooikrans wattle, Acacia cyclops, in background.
Open veld showing gross encroachment of tall Rooikrans - Acacia cyclops, from the dune area beyond. The whole grassveld area behind is threatened but the other does nothing.
A fine patch of Drosanthemum vygie in full flower below a flowering Acacia longifolia tree backed by many other Acacias, with left at the edge of the picture a flowering Zygophyllum uitenhagensis. After good spring rains but growing in pure dune sand. All likely to be destroyed by future urban development.
Showing extreme density of that type of valley bush with Euphorbia ledienii & Cotyledon velutina flowering in close association. The tall dark 'blemish' on the horizon in the mid-left part of the photograph is a tall tree among houses in Bluewater Bay Suburb.
Dense stand of Ruschia rigens with a fine-flowering plant of jointed-cactus, Opuntia aurantiaca, in foreground (whitish, actually pale yellow in life). Much of this overgrazed camp is covered in this way.
Succulent cover of Mesembryanthemum (yellow) and Ruschia rigens (pink). The bank in mid-picture is the abandoned bank of the old railway track. Swartkops escarpment in background. This horsecamp has been grossly overgrazed.
