Records made by Jan Van Bel

Climber

Very common at the School.

Paired straight thorns, very prominent cushions, flowers white balls, 6-8 pairs of pinnate; rhachis grooved.

Flowers white

Exceptionally strongly peeling bark

Growing on a Cascabela

Flowers white

White-flowered plant

White-flowered form

Large trees

Large tree

Not sure if planted or not

In flower

Epiphytic orchid

On a tree trunk, in flower

Epiphytic on Searsia lancea

Growing on Croton megalocarpus. Numerous specimens occur in this area of Ewanrigg.

Group of trees all dying, recorded earlier under record 90702. Only one alive. Honey fungus? Note added on 6 November 2025; ALL trees now dead.

Leaves with wavy margin

In fruit

Cultivated form

Flowers with 3 fertile stamens

Records 121148 and 120476 refer to the same tree.

Very common understory shrub on small kopje.

Very common understorey shrub. In flower.

Numerous colonies of escaped plants

Some doubt, as leaves unusually large. Flowers pure white, stamens 5.

Abundant; forms with and without white rays present

In disturbed ground

Trunk pale grey. Specimen checked not kept

Prickly shrub.

In flower

Corolla lobes overlap to the right

Tall shrub. Vast majority of spines were simple but a very few were forked.

Form with small orange flowers.

Young self-sown plant in native woodland

C. 8 m tall

White stigmas carpeting the school sports field

In lawn

Naturalised plant

Small self-sown plant

Black spiny galls present

In full flower

Subsp, africana

Subsp. nyassana

In shady moist bare area

Mainly in flower, but some immature fruit present