Monday, 2 April 2018

For the botanists

What follows is a random selection of photos of trees/bushes/flowers that caught our eye during our time in Botswana. It is just an aide memoire for us, probably of little interest to others.

Sausage tree



Baobab


Real fan Palm


Marula


Camel thorn tree


Purple seed terminalia tree


Shepherds tree (coffee from roots)


Zambezi teak tree


Gardenia tree


Star Apple bush


A sedge


Cats tail - immature..


..fully grown


Pretty lady


Wild hibiscus (everywhere)


Wild basil


Water river bean



Cornflower Veronica


Wild daggy


Vetch or giant sensitive plant or fertility plant




River bean




























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  1. Unknown2 April 2018 at 14:05

    Interesting plants. Don't bring any back home. Too many invasive plants in Australia from Africa. Did you see the green beetle on one of those plants. Sure you did.

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