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Drosera at Caledon


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Hallo,

after having some great time in the north of Cape Town we continued to travel back south. Our next stop was Tulbagh from where we wanted to take a look at the area around the matroosberg with (admittedly small) hope to find D. capensis or even D. acaulis.

Saddly, the weather at the day we wanted to explore the Matroosberg was quite bad. There was only a bit of rain in the morning, but the mountains were all covered in clouds. But, as you don't get the chance to go there everyday we decided to start walking up the Matroosberg to see how high we can get.

On the way up it got colder, the wind got more and more strong and the rain increased. At one point we were so cold and wet, that our faces felt like they were frozen. As we had no reall chance and no hope to find anything, we decided to go back to our car. So, the only thing i can show from Matroosberg is a picture of Drosera trinervia, taken at about 1700m ;)

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The next day should get much more better! We had arranged a meeting with Eric Green at this day and we wanted to go to a location close to Caledon. After meeting Eric at his house and having a small talk we started to drive towards Caledon.

A bit later we arrived at the location. It should not take long until Eric showed us the first Drosera, this time Drosera coccipetala!

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On this place, there is also Drosera zeyheri growing!

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The last Drosera we found there was Drosera cistiflora!

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If you read this, Eric: Many thanks for coming with us and showing us this place, as well as for the helpfull information we got for the rest of our tour!

Christian

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Guest Andreas Eils

Hi,

a foggy scenery can have its own charme. But you rarely catch this (the charme ;) ) on a photo. :( Man, D. coccipetala would be a dream to grow! I think I must pay Maurizio a visit and rob him.... :wink:

Regards

Andreas

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Guest Andreas Eils

Ah! Very interesting.... Now we only need to know who grows D. coccipetala and where he lives....hmm...Stefan Ipp... :biggrin:

We are only joking in case someone isnĀ“t sure! ;o)

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