The various regions of the S.A. West Coast

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RONDEBERG PRIVATE NATURE RESERVE

Visitors may expect to view and be introduced to up to 100 different flowers on a casual 90 minute stroll through the veld in spring. At our low point at the end of summer this will reduce to some 20 to 30, but each will have a fascination of its own.

Unless you walk and talk in the veld, only the privileged few will ever experience these jewels. Groups are limited in size to maximize personal contact, seldom follow the same route and always take you to where the best displays are at the time.

 

Various veld types occur, from lowland sandplain fynbos to renosterveld seeps and on top of the Rondeberg, karoo-oid vegetation. The veld is always alive, from Easter at the start of the green season to early summer. The dominant veld colours change up to five times as we move through the cycle, so regular visits are recommended!

“More than just daisies”. Rondeberg has flowers, cloudy or shine. Some only open at noon for lunch, while others only flower after sunset in time for a sunset tipple! We do not have a day when we cannot show and satisfy a visitor in our nature’s garden. Even if it were only to be a shrouded or rained out Table Mountain!

While by no means complete or authoritative, the following genus may be found on the reserve. Daily as we walk we find new specimens, so the list will continue to grow!
Birds occuring on and around Rondeberg
     
Bird List: last update 01/03/02 145 sightings recorded  
     
Apalis Barthroated Guineafowl Helmeted Prinia Karoo
Barbet Pied Gull Kelp Robin Cape
Batis Cape Hamerkop Robin Karoo
Bee Eater European Harrier African Marsh Ruff
Bishop Red Harrier Black Secretarybird
Bokmakierie Heron Blackheaded Shellduck S African
Bulbul Cape Heron Purple Shoveller Cape
Bunting Cape Heron Grey Shrike Fiscal
Buzzard Jackal Heron Squacco Snipe African
Buzzard Steppe Hoepoe Sparrow Cape
Canary Bully Ibis Glossy Sparrow House
Canary Cape Ibis Hadeda Sparrowhawk Redbreasted
Canary Whitethroated Ibis Sacred Spoonbill African
Canary Yellow Kestrel Rock Starling European
Chat Familiar Kingfisher Giant Starling Pied
Chat Mountain Kingfisher Halfcollared Starling Redwinged
Chat Stone Kingfisher Malachite Starling Wattled
Cisticola Fantailed Kingfisher Pied Stilt Blackwinged
Cisticola Grybacked Kite Blackshouldered Stint Little
Cisticola Levallant's Kite Yellowbilled Sugarbird Cape
Coot Redknobbed Korhaan Black Sunbird Dusky
Cormorant Cape Lark Clapper Sunbird Lesser D/collared
Cormorant Reed Lark Redcapped Sunbird Malachite
Cormorant White breasted Lark Thickbilled Swallow Greater Striped
Coucal Burchell's Longclaw Orangethroated Swallow European
Crake Black Martin African Sand Swallow Pearlbreasted
Crane Blue Martin Banded Swallow Whitethroated
Crombec Longbilled Martin Brown Throated Swift Alpine
Crow Pied Martin House Swift Black
Dabchick Moorhen Swift Horus
Dikkop Spotted Mousebird Redfaced Swift Little
Dikkop Water Mousebird Speckled Swift White Rumped
Dove Laughing Mousebird Whitebacked Teal Redbilled
Dove Namaqua Neddicky Teal Cape
Dove Redeye Night Jar Tern Caspian
Dove Turtle Ostrich Tern Swift
Duck African black Owl Barn Thrush Olive
Duck Yellowbilled Owl Spotted Eagle Tit Cape Penduline
Eagle Black Pelican White Tit Southren Grey
Egret Cattle Pigeon Rock Titbabbler
Falcon Peregrine Pipit Grassveld Wagtail Cape
Flufftail Red Chested Pipit Plainbacked Warbler African Marsh
Francolin Cape Plover Blacksmith Waxbill Common
Francolin Greywing Plover Crowned Weaver Cape
Goose Egyptian Plover Ringed White eye Cape
Goose Spurwinged Plover Kittslitz's Whydah Pintailed
Grassbird Plover Threebanded Widow Yellowrumped
Greenshank Plover Whitefronted  
Grouse Namqua sand Shoveller Cape  
FLOWERS species list - approx 850
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Acrosanthes Adenandra Adenoclini Adenogramma
Adromischus Agathosma [4] Aizoon Albuca[5]
Aloe Amellus Amphithalea Anagallis
Annesorhiza Antimima Apatesia Apium
Arctopus [1] Arctotheca[2] Arctotis[4] Argemone
Argyrolobium Aristea[2] Asclepias Aspalathus[8]
Asparagus[7] Athanasia Babiana[6] Ballota
Berkheya Berzelia[2] Brunsvigia[2] Bulbine[7]
Caesia Carpacoce Carpanthea Carpobrotus[2]
Cassytha Centella[2] Cephalophyllum Chasmanthe[2]
Cheiridopsis Chironia Chlorophytum[4] Chondropetalum[2]
Chrysanthemoides[2] Chrysocoma Cissampelos Cleretum
Clutia[1] Conicosia Conyza Corycium[2]
Cotula[6] Cotyledon Crassula[8] Cuscuta
Cybistetes Cyclopia Cynanchum[2] Cyanella
Cytinus Cyphia[4] Cysticapnos Dasispermum
Diascia[3] Dimorphotheca[2] Diosma[3] Diospyros
Dipogon Disa[5] Dischisma Disparago
Disperis Dorotheanthus[2] Drimia Drosanthemum[2]
Drosera[3] Echium Empodium[2] Erica[4]
Eriocephalus[2] Eriospermum Erodium[2] Euclea
Euphorbia[4] Euryops Eustegia[1] Falkia
Felicia[5] Ferraria[3] Freesia Fumaria
Galenia[2] Gazania Geissorhiza[3] Geranium
Gethyllis[4] Gladiolus[11] Gnidia Gorteria Grielum[2]
Grisebachia Gymnodiscus Haemanthus[2] Harveya
Hebenstreitia[4] Helichrysum[8] Heliophila[6] Heliotropium
Hemimeris[3] Hermannia[9] Hesperantha[4] Holothrix
Hyobanche Ifloga Indets[7] Indigophera[3]
Ixia[3] Juncus Kedrostis Kniphofia
Kohlrauschia Lachenalea[11] Lachnaea[3] Lachnospermum
Lampranthus[8] Lapeirousia[3] Leonotis Leptocarpus
Lessertia[4] Leucadendron[2] Leucospermum Leysera
Limeum Limonium[3] Linum Lobelia[6]
Lobostemon Lotononis Lycium[3] Lyperia
Macrostylis Manulea[7] Maytenus Melasphaerula
Melolobium Mesembryanthemum Metalasia[2] Micranthus
Microdon Microloma Monopsis[2] Montinia
Moraea[18] Muraltia[3] Nemesia[5] Nidorella
Nylandtia Oedora Oenothera Oftia
Olea[2] Oncosiphon[3] Opuntia Ornithogalum[5]
Ornithoglossum Orobanche Orphium Osyris
Osteospernum[2] Otholobium Othonna[7] Oxalis[9]
Passerina[2] Plecostachys Pauridia Pelargonium[14]
Petalacte Peucedanum Pharnaceum[4] Phylica[10]
Phyllobolus Phyllopodium Podalyria Polycarena[4]
Polygala[2] Priestleya Prismatocarpus Protea[2]
Psoralea[2] Pterocelastrus Pteronia[2] Pterygodium[4]
Putterlickia Quaqua Rafnia[2 Rhus[3]
Rhyncosia Roella[1] Romulea[8] Rumex[2]
Ruschia[4] Salaxis Salvia[3] Satyrium[3]
Scabiosa Sebaea Selago Senecio[10]
Septulina Serruria Silene[3] Sinapsis
Solanum[2] Sonderina Sparaxis[2] Spergularia
Spiloxene[3] Staavia Staberoha Stachys
Stilbe[2] Stoebe Stoibrax Strumaria
Struthiola[4] Suaeda Sutera Tenicroa[3]
Tetragonia[4] Thamnochortus Thesium[4] Torilis
Trachyandra[12] Triglochin[2] Tripteris Tritonia
Tulbaghia Tylecodon[2] Ursinia[3] Vahlia
Velthemia Vetch Vicia Viscum[2]
Wachendorfia[3] Wahlenbergia[6] Watsonia[3] Wiborgia[3]
Willdenowia Wurmbea[3] Xenoscapa Zaluzianskya[3]
Zantedeschia Zygophyllum[4]    

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