Rhodes University Botanical Collections

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  86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Garden at 86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
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  86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Garden view 86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
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  86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Garden at 86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth.
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  Kruger Gardens, Port Elizabeth

  Nerine sarniensis (half-open) in pots.
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  38 Walton Park Retirement Village, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Oxalis imbricata and Pelargonium inquinans flowering in yard. Non-flowering Oxalis smithiana plants also in pots.
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  Stoep of 86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Nerine sarniensis (Fully open) in pots.
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  Garden at 43 Admiralty Way, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Encephalartos altensteinii plants (left hand one with at least three cones) at the base of one Encephalartos. With Aloe ferox and Strelitzia reginae in background.
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  Garden at 43 Admiralty Way, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Cycad Encephalartos with Aloe africana and Aloe ferox in background.
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  Garden at 43 Admiralty Way, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Two species of cycad, one with cone, with Aloe ferox on hand.
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  Garden at 43 Admiralty Way, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Encephalartos sp. with cones
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  Garden at 43 Admiralty Way, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Encephalartos sp. with four cones, only three visible.
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  Hyperbaric Unit, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Aloe arborescens in garden. Relict of a much larger hedge. The unit caters for training of deep sea divers, etc.
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  8 Walton Road, Port Elizabeth

  Garden at 8 Walton Road, Port Elizabeth
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  6 Walton Park Retirement Village, Admiralty Way, Port Elizabeth

  Kalanchoe beharensis (alien) coming into bud for first time after 16 years since planting. Flowers opened later but were insignificant for photographing.
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  38 Walton Park Retirement Village, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Dietes among Impatiens sp. in garden.
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  Helen Vanderplank's garden, Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Boophone disticha, rescued when uprooted and left in veld.
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  Helen Vanderplank's garden, Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Helen Vanderplank with Maltese Cross Lilies grown from seed when plants cast out at roadside, abandoned by some gardener in Port Elizabeth's Western Suburbs.
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  Helen Vanderplank's garden, Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Helen Vanderplank with Maltese Cross Lilies grown from seed when plants cast out at roadside, abandoned by some gardener in Port Elizabeth's Western Suburbs.
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  Elephant Walk Tea Gardens, Cow Corner, Kraggakamma, Port Elizabeth

  Silver Tree, Leucadendron argenteum, been in for about 7-8 years, the tree was shedding its silver-tipped cones.
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  6 Thompson Street, Grahamstown, Albany

  Daisy-like weed in garden with some in seed. A very common weed in lawns if allowed to develop.
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  6 Thompson Street, Grahamstown, Albany

  Canary-creeper, Tropaeolum peregrinum flowering.
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  38 Walton Park, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Head of Leonotis leonurus flowers. Photo taken to test effect of flowers in sunshine against dark background shadow from a tree across a lawn.
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  38 Walton Park, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Pelargonium tetragonum in pot with 18 blooms. Grown from slip taken at Redhouse. Origional flower illustrated by Helen Vanderplank.
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  38 Walton Park, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth

  Cyrtanthus spiralis in a pot. Bulbs collected at Perseverence Factory area near Redhouse at site about to be covered by a new factory. This Cyrtanthus grows commonly in the stretch of veld between Redhouse and Despatch but is doomed to disappear under urban sprawl and industrial expansion.
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  A Summerstrand Garden, Port Elizabeth

  Strelitzia juncea in good flower. The species grows naturally in the bushveld sector of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage districts, not along the coast.