Flora identification

Nothing to forgive, we are all learning here and it's fun Wish I could be more help with the ID's, I have a friend who is brilliant with plants and trees but she is still on holiday and doesn't have a PC at home. I want to persuade her to join us

some close-ups on cam today, same as pic 16

Hi Tentie good to see you !!!!

Yes please Freda, we need help here badly. And you yourself are already a big help

Pic 18

the leaves seem different from pic 1 and pic 2.

Pic 19

flowerbud of the Commelina? (pic 17)

Pic 19

could this be a mushroom? I saw Vervet's eating of it!

the same mushroom....pic taken @ Sunday 7 Jan.

PIC 19
Could it be Gem-stuffed puff ball Lycoperdon perlatum ?
They do occur in South Africa too.

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/lycoperdon_perlatum.html

Looks very much like a puffball, Gerda
They pop up everywhere after it has rained.

Pic 20

*edit: I relocated the picture because those were the same fungi as Pic 19.... Thank you Bascia, you have great eyes!

Tabs, Katja and WildlifeCampus, please, can anyone of you delete this post? Thank you!

pics 19 and 20 are same mushroom 20 is a few days older....

Pic 20, this is a shaggy ink cap ( lol, I love the english name) Coprinus comatus
But to be sure we will have to wait till it lifts it cap such good english
It can be eaten when it is still in the stage before the cap rolls back and release the ink.

:!: :!: :!: Bascia you are absolutely right :oops: I just took a good look at both pics and those are the same fungi :oops:

Look at the plant in the middle......

:shock: Now what? Are those Puffballs or Shaggy Ink Caps.....

Pic 20

: Solanum : is this the same as in pic 1?

Pic 21

Looks like Wandering Jew - Commelina erecta (pic 17)

:!: :!: :!: I'm very sorry all pics are blurry and un-sharp, but it's always very windy when the cam operator takes us on the early morning Flora-tour.

It is shaggy ink cap, look up the dutch names of shaggy ink cap = geschubde intkzwam puffball = parelstuifzwam But again, we will have to wait till it is fully open

Sparrow check this pic against pic #1 the same??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solanum_melongena0.jpg

Hi Bascia, the flower looks alike but I think the leaves of the plant are different from the pics. *sigh* I wish I was better in determinating Flora.......

Cerinthe, I couldn't find it anymore mondaymorning when cam operator took us on the Flora tour! No trace of anything whitish on that spot, and the cam didn't zoom. Do you agree with Bascia and me those two pics are the same fungi?

Yes Ceri, I looked at both species (puffball and ink cap) and I tend to the ink cap now but couldn't find more pics of the several growing proceedings/phases. : Does the ink cap start as a "ball"?

Sparrow, keep looking for anything at that spot when you are on the flora tour again, hopefully they will zoom. I am curious to see more pics of it.
If it is very warm the fungi must have a short life, we have fungi when it gets cooler and it must be quite warm in SA now.

sparrow shaggy ink cap mushrooms

http://www.fotosearch.com/AGE008/j86-220719/

http://www.worldofstock.com/closeups/NPF3869.php

Thanks Bascia

http://www.gourmetgrassfedbeef.com/Wandering%20Jew.JPG

http://www.hotkey.net.au/~aviceda/images/commelina_cyanea.jpg

Bascia, thanks for the search, what a beautiful flower it is

the same as pic 11 (page 2)

@ 29 January

@ 4 February

pic captured by Sheila

I don't think this is Wild Cucumber...

Could this be wild cucumber?
Anyone got time to google cucumus hirsutus?

Hi Freda, I googled this morning Cucumis hirsutus. I could only find a picture of the fruit....
http://www.bihrmann.com/caudiciforms/subs/cuc-hir-sub.asp

is this the same as wild cucumber??? cucumus hirsutus

this is what i found on wild cukes:::
only fruit matches:::::
http://www.calflora.net/bloomingplants/wildcucumber.html

Hi all,
went googling found this link could it help you??
http://www.botanicalsociety.org.za/ :shock:

Pic 22
: Fungi or Foam nest of Chiromantis xerampelina - Gray Tree Frog :

Observations:
Thursday 18 Jan. First sighting, looked like bird dropping, small flat white speck on the grass (no pic)

Friday 19 Jan. Seems to have spread a bit, but still flat, upper right part seems to wave a bit in the wind (no pic)

Saturday 20 Jan. Grown at the lower end (lump downwards), upper right part definitely waving in the wind, looks like paper tissue (pic 1 & 2)
@ Saturday...

Sunday 21 Jan. Sure grown at the upper side, more globe-shaped (reminds me of cauliflower), looks like fungi now, not moving in the wind anymore
@ Sunday...

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