Identify plant/flower

**GameFarmer** · 17-10-2010, 12:33

Can anyone please identify this cute little plant that seems to grow from barren rock? Found in Montagu, Klein Karoo.

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**WagterEC** · 18-10-2010, 10:28

email pics to me and see what I can identify...

for some reason I cannot view them on here

heinneil@gmail.com

**Skurk777** · 18-10-2010, 10:42

Very nice pics. I would also like to know what they are.

**GameFarmer** · 18-10-2010, 10:44

Thanks, I've mailed the pics.

Maybe the moderators can assist. I've used photobucket as advised.

Link to photobucket for these pics: http://s1200.photobucket.com/albums/...armer/Flowers/

**CasperC** · 18-10-2010, 20:50

Hyodanche sanguinea - snail flower, katnael, jakkalskos to name a few names. The locals said that it is edible, some sort of sweet but I have tried and it tastes no good.

**tarmac** · 18-10-2010, 21:21

Just a small spelling error, should be hyobanche, with a b not a d. It is a parasitic herb of which there are at least 2 species found in South Africa.

**FrankH** · 18-10-2010, 21:29

..... and there you have it !! Anything from guns to flowers on GunSite.

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**GameFarmer** · 19-10-2010, 06:03

Originally Posted by FrankH

..... and there you have it !! Anything from guns to flowers on GunSite.

flowers.gif

Sharp Frank, very sharp.

But it also goes to show that most hunters/gun owners are also very much in touch with their natural environment. Most of them even conservationists.

But not to be confused with armchair-conservationists.