Meadowridge Common

This morning on the Common I spotted this Lunate Ladybird ( Cheilomenes lunata ) sweeping a daisy bush for aphids. (Other beetles you might...

Flying around the Common now are lots of pretty brown butterflies. These are Cape Autumn Widows ( Dira clytus ) that are related to the Tab...

Glossy Wild-currant, Shiny-leaved Rhus, Blinktaaibos Searsia lucida (formerly Rhus lucuda ) ANACARDACEAE (the mango family) At the moment t...

Erica subdivaricata ERICACEAE (erica family) This beautiful erica grows up to 1 m and has small, bell-shaped, white (sometimes just tinged ...

Rough Blue Sage, Bloublomsalie, Salvia chamelaeagnea LAMIACEAE (the mint and sage family) This pretty plant is flowering on the Common n...

The pine trees that occur on the Common are the Maritime or Cluster Pine ( Pinus pinaster ) and the Stone Pine ( Pinus pinea ) both native ...

Carly Cowell of Kirstenbosch is also the SANBI Project Co-ordinator for the Millennium Seed Bank Project , run by Kew Gardens. Carly has tra...