Erica urna-viridis Life
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The sticky green flowers of the rare Erica
urna-viridis flowering on Steenberg on the Cape Peninsula, South
Africa. [photos
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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Erica schlechteri flowering in summer on
basalt high in the mountains at Naude's Nek in the Eastern Cape
Drakensberg, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
A male Orange-breasted sunbird,
Anthobaphes violacea, probing for nectar, and pollinating, a
flower of the rare and very local endemic Erica urna-viridis on
Steenberg on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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