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January hikes to Elsie's Peak, Jonkersdam Trail, Rooihoogte at Cape Point, Steenberg Ridge

  by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity   in Cape Town, South Africa   Hiking among wildflowers in the mountains around Cape Town   This January was a month of fires, smoke, and burn scars. Starting at Elsie's Peak where we revelled in blue flowers. Beetle with yellow epaulettes on Aristea glauca . Agapanthus africanus are Christmas flowers. Lobelia coronopifolia deep blue with white and a rosette of leaves below. Lobelia pubescens white with just a hint of blue (narrow toothy leaves)   Blue flowers on Elsie's Peak in January Wind sweeping up from Cape Point nearly knocked us off the ridge. This Teedia lucida is an old friend, battling the summer heat, but climbing up in a shady crevice. Sparkling yellow stars Gnidia juniperifolia . Pair of pods Podalyria biflora . Watsonia tabularis favours rock outcrops, but this one, was next to the path. Spread umbrella of flowers says Apiaceae Nanobubon strictum . Crassula coccinea flashes red!   Red

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