Operation Wildflower
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Articles
    • Contact Us
    • Disclaimer
    • Glossary
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
    • Subject Index
Home Home » PARKS AND GARDENS » Harold Porter NBG » Limonium capense two flower colours
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 12,244
Total number of hits on all images: 7,574,853

Limonium capense two flower colours

Limonium capense two flower colours
Start View full size
[Please activate JavaScript in order to see the slideshow]
Previous Previous
Image 5 of 14  
Next Next
Image 7 of 14  
  • Brunsvigia orientalis in garden conditions
  • Erepsia inclaudens
  • Gleichenia polypodioides
  • Helichrysum dasyanthum
  • Hurrah! It is spring!
  • Limonium capense two flower colours
  • Lobelia linearis flowering white
  • Lobelia pinifolia
  • Mimetes hottentoticus
  • Pelargonium radens
  • Protea cynaroides
  • Scabiosa incisa
  • Stilbe ericoides
  • Wachendorfia thyrsiflora colony

Image information

Description

The flowers of Limonium capense, in Afrikaans the Saldanha strandroos (beach rose), have pink-purple petals upon opening. The petals bleach to white as they age, leaving only the lateral petal margins retaining some colour. The stamens can be seen spreading just above the corolla. The anthers are yellow. The calyx is funnel-shaped.

L. capense has a small distribution negatively affected by.human activities. Habitat reduction goes on unceasingly, caused by all strongly growing species, meaning these days essentially people.

Humanity has become the single dominant species on earth, growing in numbers and impact at unprecedented rate. There is knowledge about expected tapering off of our population growth but the forecasts are not fact and the impact is already severe. Its levelling off globally still lies in the future, currently in speculation much more than action.

People invade the living space of about every other living species, seemingly without a thought or a care on our part. As we label species weeds and noxious, other species must regard us as hostile and dangerous as well, to the extent that they are capable of learning and drawing such conclusions.

We also learn continually. Among other things that we don't eat, drink or breathe without help from other species. We therefore have a survival dependency upon biological diversity, i.e. upon other species doing well from being effectively cared for.

This little plant is hardy and still standing, as Elton John might sing! There are concerned citizens who take care, once they become aware of cases of species endangerment.

Like Harold Porter National Botanical Garden staff who grow L. capense and many other indigenous plants for brightening the experience of visitors, as well as keeping rare ones alive and selling plants cheaply to gardeners for sharing the effort (Manning, 2007; www.ispot.org.za; www.redlist.sanbi.org).

Hits
766
Photographer
Thabo Maphisa
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery