Livingstone Daisy (Cleretum bellidiforme) DSC_8662 by fotosynthesys
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Cactus and succulent illustrations from "Histoire des Plantes Grasses" (1799) by one of the finest and most famous botanical illustrators of all time, Pierre-Joseph Redouté. Redouté was a Flemish artist and botanist renowned for his exquisite watercolor paintings of botanical and native plant species. These digitally enhanced botanical illustrations are free to download under the CC0 license.
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Distribution: Namibia (Great Namaqualand)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Core eudicots
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Aizoaceae
Genus:Titanopsis
From my collection
St Peters Garden Weekend 2015
St Peters Garden Weekend 2015
St Peters Garden Weekend 2015
St Peters Garden Weekend 2015
California ground squirrel
The California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi), also known as the Beechey ground squirrel, is a common and easily observed ground squirrel of the western United States and the Baja California Peninsula; it is common in Oregon and California and its range has relatively recently extended into Washington and northwestern Nevada.
The squirrel's upper parts are mottled, the fur containing a mixture of gray, light brown and dusky hairs; the underside is lighter, buff or grayish yellow. The fur around the eyes is whitish, while that around the ears is black. Head and body are about 30 cm (12 in) long and the tail an additional 15 cm (5.9 in). They can weigh from 280-738 g(9.87-26.01 oz). The tail is relatively bushy for a ground squirrel, and at a quick glance the squirrel might be mistaken for a fox squirrel. As is typical for ground squirrels, California ground squirrels live in burrows which they excavate themselves. Some burrows are occupied communally but each individual squirrel has its own entrance. Although they readily become tame in areas used by humans, and quickly learn to take food left or offered by picnickers, they spend most of their time within 25 m (82 ft) of their burrow, and rarely go further than 50 m (160 ft) from it.
Carpobrotus edulis
Carpobrotus edulis is a ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genus Carpobrotus, native to South Africa. It is also known as Hottentot-fig, ice plant, highway ice plant or pigface and in South Africa as the sour fig (suurvy). Carpobrotus edulis is a creeping, mat-forming succulent species and member of the fig-marigold family Aizoaceae, one of about 30 species in the genus Carpobrotus. Carpobrotus edulis has naturalised in many other regions throughout the world, and is an invasive species in several parts, notably Australia, California and the Mediterranean, all of which have similar climates. The ice plant has escaped from cultivation and has become invasive, posing a serious ecological problem by forming vast monospecific zones, lowering biodiversity, and competing directly with several threatened or endangered plant species for nutrients, water, light, and space.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_ground_squirrel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpobrotus_edulis
likes the Fig Marigold fruit
At the Ballona Wetlands
