Most of the Dirichletia obovatas I encountered were past their flowering, but this one had a few sweet scented tubes remaining. I can only imagine their scent…
A beautiful specimen of Oldenlandia balfourii, at its full potential. Usually the species is gobbled up by the goats, but at the time I visited there was still…
This specimen of Oldenlandia balfourii is growing alongside the fern Adiantum balfourii, and appears vital and at its full potential. Unfortunately it bears…
Most of the Dirichletia obovatas I encountered were past their flowering, but this one had a few sweet scented tubes remaining. I can only imagine their scent…
A common species seen from sea-level to 700-800 meters elevation. During this visit I found them in bloom in all the locations I encountered them.
They are…
At this stage the inflorescences look like hortensia, but in fact the flowers are long gone and fallen to the ground. The flowers, or corollas, are purple,…
In places I found large numbers of these lovely cushion-forming plants in bloom. Some with white flowers, others blue, and some in between like this one.…
This is a common and very variable species, here found in the Firhmin forest. In fact so variable that it was previously separated into three species:
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