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Canterbury House

Canterbury House, Rhodes University College

Canterbury House, Rhodes University College.

Canterbury Memorial Hall - The Grotto

Cape and Gurney's Sugerbird habitat, Hoho Peak, Pirie Mountain, King William's Town, Ciskei, 1402 m asl

Looking westwards from top of Hoho Peak (Pirie West Peak) over Protea thickets in immediate foreground to the mid-picture ridge covered in Cliffortia fynbos and which might once have held dense Protea subvestita and /or Protea multibracteata thickets. Some of the latter still growing below the subvestita thickets there. iNtaba knNdoda Peak in distance.

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Cape chestnuts on Red Hill, Rabula Valley on road from King William's Town to Keiskammahoek. 1959."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Cape chestnuts on Red Hill, Rabula Valley on road from King William's Town to Keiskammahoek. 1959."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Cape chestnuts on Red Hill, Rabula Valley on road from King William's Town to Keiskammahoek. 1959."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Fruit of Cape chestnut."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Cape Chestnut relict in eroded soil, near Line drift, Keiskamma River Valley. 11.7.1960."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Large Chestnut standing out above forest near Woodlands, King Wms Town district. 1959."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Cape Chestnut in winter leaflessness Woodlands forest. King Wms Town. July 1960."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Cape Chestnut beside the National Road near Line Drift, Keiskamma River, King William's Town. Note how the tree is growing alone, yet it is a tree which normally likes to have others growing around it. The veld has been denuded of its dense valley bush along the stream. 1964." Additional handwritten note: "This tree was destroyed by road gangs in the early 1970's."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Cape Chestnut beside the National Road near Line Drift, Keiskamma River, King William's Town. Note how the tree is growing alone, yet it is a tree which normally likes to have others growing around it. The veld has been denuded of its dense valley bush along the stream. 1964." Additional handwritten note: "This tree was destroyed by road gangs in the early 1970's."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Sprays of flowers of Cape Chestnut at the tree in the Keiskamma River Valley near Line Drift, King Williams Town. 1964." Additional handwritten note: "This tree was destroyed by road gangs in the early 1970's."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Cape Chestnut bush near Bridle drift, East London dist. June 1961. This head was almost white."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Close up of Cape Chestnut in bush near Bridle drift, East London. June 1961. The blossoms were almost white."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Seed pod of Cape Chestnut showing arrangement and shape of the hard black nuts."

Cape chestnut

Caption: "Cape Chestnut. C.capense nuts. The complete nut; the husks as discarded and the kernels which are eaten by parrots. Ramerons swallow the whole nut."