Grandmothers these days rarely wear bonnets but the idea of a granny’s bonnet is familiar to most people. A piece of lacy cloth wrapped around the head, with a broad rim at the front. The name is used as a common name for a number of plants with hooded flowers.…
An enchanting aspect of studying fynbos is that you often don’t know what is there until it flowers. Many plants use similar life strategies to survive the harsh conditions and thus their habit and leaves can appear identical. So fynbos contains many shrubby plants with needle-like leaves, bulbous plants with…
