Tag: October
Everlasting Snow
Doubtfully Fragrant Cats’ Tails
Car Park Orchids
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…
Foaming Grasshoppers
Grasshoppers are generally known for their jumping ability. Anyone who has tried to catch one will know that this is an invaluable defence mechanism for getting away from predators. But what if you don’t need to get away from predators? The koppie foam grasshopper, Dictyophorus spumans, is such a creature…