Observations in the Genus: Watsonia skip down to interactions
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Observed on: 9th January 2013
Added to iSpot: 9th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 2
Description: Late flowering pink Watsonia. Solitary plant (!) at 1.1m. Flowering Jan (and Feb, later?) (!). Tepal lobes 25 x 6 mm, pink streak on middle. Approx 41 flowers on one spike, two stems. Bracts dry brown, margins dark, veins pale. Leaf 15 x 700mm, raised midrib on both sides. But only mildly thickened at edge(!). (!) Discrepancy with Pooley. (?) Not recorded.
Observed on: 11th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 8th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 6
Comments: 0
Description: Cormous geophyte to 2 m. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers mostly orange to red, sometimes pink or purple, red or orange, tube elongate, bracts short. Capsules tapering.
Observed on: 11th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 8th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 5
Comments: 0
Description: Cormous geophyte to 1.2 m. Leaves sword-shaped. Flowers scarlet, tube elongate. Capsules attenuate. Mainly Nov.--Jan. Montane marshes and streambanks in fynbos,
Observed on: 29th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 25th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 18th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 19th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: leafs 400mm tall, inflorescence 1m tall. Not sure of id at all (fourcadei / knysnana?)
By: Douglas Euston-Brown
Observed on: 16th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 16th December 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 3
Observed on: 11th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 13th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Plants about 1.2m tall.
Observed on: 27th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 9th December 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 2
Comments: 4
Description: I've added this photo as it shows the planted field with a commercial crop (Canola?) bordered on the far side by wild Watsonias and mixed wildflowers on the near side.
Observed on: 27th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 9th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 1st December 2012
Added to iSpot: 4th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 1
Observed on: 1st December 2012
Added to iSpot: 2nd December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Observed on: 11th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 2nd December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: High up the bank in the kloof of the van Reenen stream. Single isolated plant in rocks. Height 1.3m. Leaf (15mm wide) has strong midrib not mentioned in Pooley but also present in identifications of
Rudi von staden and
Colin-Paterson Jones .
By: Nomvume
Observed on: 25th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 29th November 2012
Identifications: 3
Agreements: 0
Comments: 6
By: Douglas Euston-Brown
Location: ZA, R43
Lat/Lng: -33.6006, 19.2103
Slanghoek Valley
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Observed on: 27th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 27th November 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 2
Description: Small, 30-40 cm tall, flowers 2-3 cm wide
Observed on: 20th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 21st November 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 2
Observed on: 12th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 16th November 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Description: Very beautiful pink Watsonia not unlike W. confusa but smaller. Leaves 420 x 8 mm, to sharp point. Strong mid rib shown in second picture. Plant thus also 420mm approx. Flowers 30mm. Bracts brown, sturdy. Many specimens on hill side making a wonderful show.
Observed on: 7th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 16th November 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 15th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 15th November 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
By: LindsayLewis
Observed on: 31st October 2012
Added to iSpot: 11th November 2012
Identifications: 3
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Growing along fence line, transition between hard dune and renostervelt
Observed on: 9th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 10th November 2012
Likely ID: Watsonia borbonica
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 3
Description: Frequent tall Watsonia on mountain slopes
Observed on: 7th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 7th November 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Tall watsonia to 1,8m. Some branched, with distinctive rusty orange/red stipule like bracts where flowers join the green stems and elsewhere on the stem. Stamens very central in the quite symetrical (not drooping) bright pink flowers.
Observed on: 4th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 5th November 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 1
Observed on: 4th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 4th November 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Description: Large watsonia - about 1.5 m.
Observed on: 4th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 4th November 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 7
Description: A small clump flowering in a damp spot at the confluence of the path from Blackburn Ravine and the road around the reservoir. Plant is about 30-50 cm high.
Observed on: 2nd November 2012
Added to iSpot: 3rd November 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 5
Comments: 1
By: Nomvume
Observed on: 27th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 1st November 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
By: Douglas Euston-Brown
Observed on: 27th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 31st October 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
By: Douglas Euston-Brown
Observed on: 27th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 30th October 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 0
Comments: 4
Description: Watsonia thin tube
Observed on: 28th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 29th October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
By: Douglas Euston-Brown
Observed on: 26th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 26th October 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 2
Comments: 6
Observed on: 21st October 2012
Added to iSpot: 22nd October 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 4
Location: R43, Ceres
Lat/Lng: -33.4697, 19.2235
Breede Alluvial Fynbos
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Observed on: 21st October 2012
Added to iSpot: 22nd October 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 23
Observed on: 21st October 2012
Added to iSpot: 22nd October 2012
Identifications: 3
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Description: Breede Alluvial Fynbos
Observed on: 16th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 21st October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 14th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 17th October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Observed on: 13th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 14th October 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 2
Description: If correct ID, then note purple anthers...
Observed on: 29th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 9th October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 5
Comments: 0
Description: Height about 0.5m with sword-shaped leaves and nodding, cylindrical tubed flowers.
Observed on: 2nd October 2012
Added to iSpot: 9th October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 0
Description: Short, bright pink
Observed on: 7th October 2012
Added to iSpot: 8th October 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 2
Comments: 3
Observed on: 3rd October 2012
Added to iSpot: 4th October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 6
Comments: 0
By: Lindelani Zuke
Observed on: 16th January 2012
Added to iSpot: 4th October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 27th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 2nd October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 1
Description: Plant cultivated from seed collected from Tokai Park, and this plant flowered while no plants were found in flower at Tokai.
Observed on: 30th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 1st October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 28th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 30th September 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Very low for a Watsonia - only about 20cm high
Observed on: 16th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 29th September 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 22nd September 2012
Added to iSpot: 23rd September 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Found another small population of the laccata with purple anthers (see http://ispot.org.za/node/141883 ), which were mostly over and obviously hadn't been as magnificent a show as the ones in newly-burnt veld.
Observed on: 16th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 19th September 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
By: Kash
Location: N2, Mbeni
Lat/Lng: -30.73608, 30.17133
Oribi Gorge Nature Reserve
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Observed on: 12th January 2011
Added to iSpot: 19th September 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Location: R44, Paarl
Lat/Lng: -33.45, 19.063
Elandsberg Nature Reserve
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Observed on: 16th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 18th September 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Location: R44, Paarl
Lat/Lng: -33.45, 19.063
Elandsberg Nature Reserve
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Observed on: 16th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 18th September 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Species with which Watsonia interacts