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Bookings Open – Veld Walks – Vetplantfees 2018

on August 8, 2018

Trained Cape Nature guides will escort small groups of enthusiast on a 90-minute walk to Calitzdorp’s famous Jakkalskop where…
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Plant of the Month – May 2018

on May 15, 2018

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Plant of the Month – Apr 2018

on April 4, 2018

Faucaria tigrina Faucaria tigrina (Haworth 1789) (Tiger Jaws, Shark Jaws, Tierbekvygie) The first documented discovery of Faucaria tigrina was during an…
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Flowering Right Now – March 2018

on March 8, 2018

Check out these beauties we found flowering in the Klein Karoo in the last couple of days. Remember to…
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Plant of the Month – Mar 2018

on March 8, 2018

Euphorbia gamkensis (Marx 1999) Calitzdorp Euphorbia Our own Calitzdorp Euphorbia. Euphorbis gamkensis grows a large, more or less cylindrical underground…
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Surviving in times of drought. How plants do it?

on February 13, 2018

Text: Luise Granig This article appeared in the February 2018 Newsletter of the Johannesburg Succulent Society and are reprinted with…
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Flowering Right Now – February 2018

on February 11, 2018

Buck Hemenway, Chairman of the Calitzdorp Succulent Society, shared some pictures of the succulents currently flowering in the Hemenways’…
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Plant of the Month – Feb 2018

on February 8, 2018

Portulacaria afra (Jacquin 1786) Spekboom (Pork Bush) Elephant’s food, isiCococo (Zulu) iGqwanitsha (Xhoza) This plant is very popular among succulent collectors and growers,…
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Plant of the Month – Jan 2018

on February 6, 2018

Tylecodon cacalioides (Tolken 1978) (Krismisnenta, Krimpsiektebos) This plant is flowering profusely as this article is being written. We are just…
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Plant of the Month – Dec 2017

on December 9, 2017

Delosperma calitzdorpense L. Bolus 1950 If the name strikes a familiar tone, it is because this plant is known to…
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