fuckyeahmitsubishis:

1962 angolan grand prix

nationalgeographicmagazine:

Camel Thorn Trees, Namibia
Photograph by Frans Lanting, National Geographic
Tinted orange by the morning sun, a soaring dune is the backdrop for the hulks of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park.

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The single specimen of Oxalis linarantha we saw with a bulb. Lourteig described this species, but never knew it formed bulbs. A hidden life.

Oxalis linarantha 3710. That this species forms bulbs of similar morphology to those of African Oxalis was not previously known. It probably represents the only extant member of the lineage from which the 210+ species of Africa originated. Or, it could be a reintroduction, I guess. Either way, it is clearly not a member of section Articulatae by ancestry. It is quite common along wet, rocky roadsides in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.

From the UBC Botany photo of the day:

http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2011/03/oxalis_palmifrons.php

Oxalis pes-caprae. A cosmopolitan weed originating in southern Africa. This individual is a tristylous short.

electricorchid:

an alien garden | Lower Bigo Bog, Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda | +

Figure 5 from Knuth’s contribution to Engler’s Das Pflanzenreich (1930, I’m sure I spelled that incorrectly…)