Date Added
February 24, 2022
03:11 PM SAST
Date Added
July 18, 2021
03:38 PM SAST
Date Added
June 26, 2024
11:17 AM SAST
Description
Found in the bath just before a thunderstorm. Relocated outside to a collection of large shale rocks. Fairly large, but still able to squeeze down the bath's drainage pipe.
Sesotho name = Sekhoe saseholo
A few days prior to this discovery, a large female Theraphosid was found on the same farm. She was described as having thick legs and a golden-orange starburst on the carapace, and with the body colouration tending to orange. She was found in an extensive surface web that spanned grass tussocks and rocky areas in an area about 1m by 40cm. Reacted defensively to approaching footsteps, and the web consistency was described as fairly strong.
Date Added
June 2, 2018
08:25 AM SAST
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September 24, 2015
10:32 PM SAST
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August 14, 2021
04:12 PM SAST
Date Added
August 6, 2023
12:05 PM SAST
Description
Shaley underground, dark ground, in shade, very small and dainty
Date Added
July 3, 2023
05:38 AM UTC
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May 19, 2022
11:57 AM UTC
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January 13, 2015
10:06 AM SAST
Description
Bulbine
Leaves quill-like. Flowers yellow
Date Added
August 17, 2019
03:08 PM SAST
Date Added
April 9, 2024
02:07 PM SAST
Date Added
November 12, 2023
09:56 PM +11
Date Added
May 28, 2024
09:03 AM UTC
Date Added
November 4, 2022
02:34 PM SAST
Date Added
April 24, 2024
11:15 PM SAST
Date Added
March 13, 2019
05:53 PM SAST
Date Added
February 15, 2024
07:42 AM HST
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March 26, 2023
07:45 AM SAST
Date Added
March 10, 2024
05:33 PM UTC
Date Added
December 5, 2020
05:10 PM SAST
Description
Drying itself in the sun, approx 1cm above the water. Flew away after about 10 minutes.
Date Added
May 14, 2020
09:45 PM SAST
Description
Odd bits of leaf sealed onto the upper side of leaves, containing small larvae. On Scutia myrtina.
Date Added
November 7, 2023
09:07 PM SAST
Date Added
January 1, 2024
08:43 AM UTC
Date Added
December 10, 2023
10:58 PM SAST
Date Added
November 30, 2023
01:05 PM UTC
Date Added
October 18, 2023
10:20 PM SAST
Date Added
October 18, 2023
10:22 PM SAST
Date Added
October 18, 2023
10:24 PM SAST
Date Added
October 18, 2023
10:24 PM SAST
Place
Private
Date Added
November 7, 2023
11:40 AM SAST
Place
Private
Date Added
February 4, 2021
06:41 PM SAST
Description
hidden away like a small island in the middle of a big ocean
Date Added
October 4, 2018
10:29 PM SAST
Date Added
May 16, 2022
01:38 PM SAST
Date Added
February 15, 2017
02:04 PM SAST
Date Added
September 23, 2017
12:53 PM SAST
Description
Bulbine?
Very small plant, succulent leaves. Fluffy anthers.
Date Added
February 11, 2019
10:33 PM SAST
Date Added
August 2, 2019
07:34 PM SAST
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August 19, 2019
07:13 AM SAST
Date Added
August 31, 2019
11:09 PM SAST
Date Added
March 18, 2020
02:33 PM SAST
Description
shallow soils over rocky areas, above forest patch close to sea, one or two patches where abundant only
Date Added
June 24, 2020
11:07 PM SAST
Date Added
September 7, 2020
10:27 PM SAST
Date Added
February 4, 2021
04:07 PM SAST
Date Added
April 19, 2022
01:43 PM UTC
Description
My brother together with Terrance the guy in the picture, safely and umharmed got this big beautu into a bucket. For a few days now they keep seeing a snake by the pallats, but keeps dissapearing about 30 minutes ago, they saw the snale again and safely re-located it into the field not to far from the workshop. I am very proud of them for handling the snak woth such love and care. Snake was released safely and unharmed.
Date Added
July 26, 2021
09:05 PM UTC
Date Added
July 21, 2015
02:09 PM SAST
Date Added
May 2, 2022
04:36 AM UTC
Date Added
August 24, 2022
03:03 PM UTC
Date Added
July 24, 2023
12:52 PM SAST
Date Added
August 25, 2023
09:23 PM SAST
Date Added
August 18, 2021
09:11 PM SAST
Date Added
September 28, 2022
08:01 PM UTC
Date Added
June 19, 2023
10:37 AM HST
Date Added
December 31, 2020
08:37 PM SAST
Date Added
February 20, 2018
12:34 PM SAST
Date Added
February 4, 2022
08:55 PM SAST
Date Added
June 20, 2023
07:13 PM UTC
Date Added
May 5, 2023
09:22 AM UTC
Description
SPECIAL - Only one obs. uploaded on iNat
Date Added
April 5, 2023
11:45 AM SAST
Description
Photo credits: Etienne De Beer.
Date Added
April 3, 2023
02:16 PM SAST
Date Added
August 29, 2022
03:11 PM SAST
Description
Holothrix sp. nova. "outeniquaensis"
Date Added
December 7, 2015
11:18 AM SAST
Description
Eulophia tenella
Three plants observed in grassy area on road verge.
Date Added
January 12, 2023
08:19 AM UTC
Date Added
January 3, 2022
11:46 AM SAST
Date Added
October 3, 2021
09:00 PM AEDT
Date Added
December 2, 2012
05:09 PM SAST
Date Added
February 6, 2023
07:58 PM UTC
Date Added
October 1, 2021
09:02 AM UTC
Description
This observation is for the porcupine
Date Added
January 9, 2020
09:20 PM SAST
Date Added
January 18, 2021
09:39 PM SAST
Date Added
November 11, 2022
03:21 PM SAST
Date Added
July 4, 2022
03:16 PM SAST
Date Added
October 27, 2022
09:12 PM SAST
Description
Day after first heavy rain 20 mm. River bank on basalt hillside.
Date Added
December 21, 2021
08:06 PM SAST
Description
Vaalbos Rocky Shrubland (Rhigozum obovatum-Senegalia mellifera open scrubland)
Date Added
October 1, 2022
04:40 PM SAST
Date Added
April 7, 2020
12:33 PM SAST
Description
Clear liquid / gel squeezed from leaves into glass bowl.
Date Added
September 12, 2020
10:53 AM SAST
Description
Date Added
November 22, 2020
03:58 PM SAST
Date Added
February 1, 2022
04:20 PM SAST
Date Added
October 17, 2022
01:56 PM SAST
Date Added
August 5, 2021
07:54 AM HST
Date Added
October 25, 2019
08:18 PM UTC
Description
Sheltered, forested river pass on rocky cragg. Matches Bulbine lagopus illustrated in Audrey Moriarty's wildflower guide of 1982.
Bulbine sp nov
Date Added
June 12, 2012
01:47 PM SAST
Description
Mimetes chrysanthus cn
The Outramps discovered the 2nd only colony of Mimetes chrysanthus in 1996 when we were working for the Protea Atlas Project. The first colony was found 100kms to the west at Gamkaberg in 1987. It was one of the most exciting and memorable moments in our lives. This is why I have chosen it for the iSpot Celebratory Launch.
It is also a tribute to Casey Nootenboom who produced the most stunning photographs over the years for the Outramps. Health issues now prevent his joining us on field trips, but his wonderful photos will remain a lasting legacy.
We live out in the sticks far away from the corridors of botanical power. For us, iSpot has been a life-changing experience. We now have a whole community of like-minded people and experts to help us. The linking of the Red List to iSpot has made a huge difference to the work we do for CREW.
Thank you Tony, for all your help and enthusiasm and for making it so much fun. Long live iSpot!!
Mimetes chrysanthus is Redlisted as Vulnerable
Date Added
February 12, 2015
04:03 PM SAST
Date Added
December 11, 2018
08:02 PM SAST
Date Added
October 17, 2021
02:32 PM SAST
Date Added
August 12, 2022
08:16 PM SAST
Date Added
October 4, 2021
03:30 PM PDT
Date Added
June 3, 2016
03:07 PM SAST
Description
Hairy orchid leaves
Date Added
November 10, 2011
10:43 AM SAST
Description
Cytinus capensis flower info
Parasitic plant producing deep red flowers in clusters that protrude above ground. Males and females produced on separate plants (dioecious). Not scented (at least not what humans can detect). Flowers comprise only 4 very dark maroon-coloured perianth lobes with inclined hairs covering most of their surface except for the margins. Confined to the Cape Peninsula (so far). This plant has only been available for study as a result of its discovery by amateur botanists.These piccies were taken after Jayne McDermid and Marland Holderness had found the plants and let me know about them.
What
Shrews
(Family Soricidae)
Date Added
January 7, 2021
01:23 PM SAST
Description
The body is 7.5cm and the tail 5cm.
Date Added
December 11, 2020
03:37 PM UTC
Description
Two tiny young shrews seen on forest floor in Nature’s Valley, making soft sounds. The one appeared to be unwell, on its back.
Date Added
November 8, 2013
09:14 AM NZDT
Description
Rat caught in a DOC200 trap.
2 weeks between its first visit to trap and being caught (see 974739). Bait: Peanut butter.
Female, body length aprox 20cm, tail 15cm, weight aprox 160gm.
Second photo is from a monitoring infrared webcam and is the product of low light levels and slow shutter speeds - simultaneously showing the live rat, the trigged trap closing and the closed trap (so we have a photo of a simultaneously alive and dead rat).
see also 975015
Date Added
February 16, 2017
08:20 AM SAST
Description
deception capensibufo
Holotype and paratype of C. deceptus, with A.A. Turner, D. Rossouw and R. Howat
Date Added
October 22, 2015
03:42 PM SAST
Date Added
May 8, 2021
12:58 PM SAST
Date Added
August 7, 2016
07:25 PM SAST
Description
Satyrium bracteatum
Date Added
February 6, 2022
03:16 PM SAST
Description
Central Free State Grassland (Vachellia karroo woodland)
Date Added
October 25, 2011
03:52 PM SAST
Description
Crassula pageae Cederberg
Minute plant about 1,5 cm in diam. Flowers tinged pink.