Diario de dianastuder

Last November.
Pink bananas and pink pineapples.
Vanilla orchids.
Scaevola that grows in salt spray on the shore.
Grass that can colonise lava by the sea.
A tropicbird with long white tail.
Lichen that colonises lava.

So many exotic plants (and bird).
Wonderful to meet in life what I recognise from iNat!

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/07/reunion-island-jardin-parfums-epices.html

in the world's smallest plant kingdom.

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/05/march-fynbos-rambles-silvermine-smitswinkel.html

for disas and After Fire Flowers

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/04/february-hikes-cecilia-slangkop-blackburn-elsies.html

Back to our November journey and a chance for me to SEE, with my own two eyes, some of the plants I know only from IDing iNat obs.

Four more from my obs

Lessertia capensis with its vivid colour
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137157811

Aristea glauca has papery bracts
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/105216414

Garden volunteer
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23127748

And a moss thanks to @georgeg
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177538147
waiting very patiently for a second taxon specialist ...

Hiking among wildflowers
in the mountains
around Cape Town

This January was a month of fires, smoke, and burn scars. Gave me 800 Cape Peninsula sp.

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/03/january-hikes-elsies-peak-jonkersdam-rooihoogte-steenberg.html

Lifelist is buggy?

821 species today.
https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/dianastuder?tree_mode=full_taxonomy&place_id=123155

The formal list is
https://www.inaturalist.org/check_lists/900895-Adamson---Salter-List

iNat's places shows me at 778 species
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/cape-peninsula#/places/cape-peninsula=

Disa ferruginea doesn't show up on my 'lifelist' but it is on the other 2.
778 versus 821 species - will have to stumble after both numbers.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/107826343

Catching up.

Added a robber fly. Synolcus?

Only 4 900 to go - but the top 3 include penguins ... that's easy, Boulders beach is down the road.

(750 on 24 Sept 2023) For this plant person my last 3 are associated animals.

Playing catchup.

https://eefalsebay.blogspot.com/2024/01/september-hikes-slangkop-soetwater-myburghskloof-olifantsbos.html

I wonder about the geology of that ridge of boulders @raylantalbot ?
I only realised today I can use my iNat calendar in map mode to see exactly where we walked. The rocks ridge out to sea, but the landward side is a barrier of loose boulders. Don't see that anywhere else that we walk.
https://www.inaturalist.org/calendar/dianastuder/2023/9/27