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Thanks naturelover

Here's another that I need help with. Seen near Olifants in KNP on 24 april 2012.

I'm officially stumped on this one but I'll keep searching for it.

Thanks, naturelover! Does this crop help? Pea family perhaps?

I think it is a Polygala in the POLYGALACEAE family. This family superficially resembles the 'pea' family.

Thanks, naturelover. I just realised that I listed where I saw it incorrectly, I actually saw this one in WCNP on 24 MAY 2012. Does that change what it might be?

Got it: Nylandtia spinosa also POLYGALACEAE. I am very gald you told me it was from the WCNP as this made identifying it a whole lot easier. It is so important to get the locality right as this helps narrow down the number of possibilities and elimanate lookalikes occuring in other areas.

If you ever need anything else identified please don't hesitate.

Thanks, naturelover and apologies for originally giving you the incorrect locale for the shrub.

And since you so graciously offered, here's another, also seen at WCNP on 24 May 2012





And this one, seen along Darling Hills Road on 9 June 2012

The first is a Zygophyllum species and the second is a parasite called Septulina glauca it belongs to the LORANTHACEAE family and its comon name is Candles.

Many thanks for your help with those two, NL Is candles an alien invader or just not considered a fynbos plant (I couldn't find it in my field guide)?

Here's another one I need help with, seen at Strandfontein on 21 June 2012.

It's definitely indigenous but Zygophyllums are generally regarded as desert plants as most of species occur in arid areas.

Your latest plant is an exotic. I am no at all sure what its identity is.

Thanks NL, I had a feeling that it might be an alien.

Can you help with this one? Seen at Cape Point in October 2010.

Do you have any other photos of this plant? I am battleing to id it with this photo.

Unfortunately no other pix, NL, but I did make a mistake on when I saw it — it was in March 2010, not October. Does that perhaps help?

I was at Cape Point on Wednesday with some of my collegues and I am going to be going on several trips there. If you tell where you saw the plant and I try and find it so I can examine it more closely and hopefully come up with a name.