Kniphofia uvaria
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Kniphofia
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Red hot pokers (Kniphofia uvaria),
flowering in mid-winter along a stream in recently burnt fynbos with
cloud on the southern slopes of the Du Toits Kloof Mountains, Western
Cape, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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Kniphofia uvaria flowering in Autumn after
a fire. Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
Red hot pokers (Kniphofia uvaria),
flowering in mid-winter along a stream in recently burnt fynbos on the
southern slopes of the Du Toits Kloof Mountains, Western Cape, South
Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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A male Southern double-collared sunbird (Cinnyris
chalybeus), pollinating Kniphofia uvaria flowering in late
summer after a fire on the southern Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
Kniphofia uvaria. [photo
H.G.
Robertson, Iziko ©] |
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