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KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
Cape Town, South Africa, August 2023.
Since the plants were not named, I searched the Internet to try to identify them, I might be wrong.
Chasmanthe floribunda

Chasmanthe floribunda is mentioned in
CAPE BULBS by Heidi Gildemeister 
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN  number 27 January 2002

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KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
Cape Town, South Africa, August 2023.
Since the plants were not named, I searched the Internet to try to identify them, I might be wrong.
Leucospermum cordifolium

As luck would have It, I have a postage stamp and a postcard depicting this plant.
On the back of the postcard is written 
‘Pincushion and a Sugarbird ‘

Leucospermum cordifolium is mentioned as growing in the Kirstenbosch Garden in
A BOTANICAL TOUR OF NAMAQUALAND by Andrew Sloan
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 111 January 2023

See THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN SOCIETY website for photographs that will help you to appreciate and visualize the plants and scenery described

https://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/111-tour.html
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KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
Cape Town, South Africa, August 2023.
Protea subvestita
Since the plants were not named, I searched the Internet to try to identify them, I might be wrong.
Protea are mentioned in the following article but not specifically Protea subvestita.
A WATERWISE GARDEN AT KIRSTENBOSCH
by Liesl van der Walt
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 27 January 2002
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KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
Cape Town, South Africa, August 2023.

 I searched the Internet to try to identify this plant, I might be wrong.
Leucadendron argenteum

Leucadendron argenteum is mentioned in
 CONQUERING TABLE MOUNTAIN 
By Kirsten Honeyman
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 90 October 2017

For photographs see
http://www.mediterraneangardensocietyarchive.org/90-table.html
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KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
Cape Town, South Africa, August 2023.

An exhibition of plants found in the Fynbos

A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA:
PART 1, BOTANICAL GARDENS
By Valerie Whittington
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 88 April 2017

For photographs of some of the gardens
http://www.mediterraneangardensocietyarchive.org/stellenbosch.html
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KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
Cape Town, South Africa, August 2023.
Strelitzia reginae
And as a bonus a stamp from South Africa depicting the Strelitzia

 THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN NUMBER 107 January 2022
BIRDS OF PARADISE by Geoff Crowhurst

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KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
Cape Town, South Africa, August 2023.

Encephalartos, a cycad growing in in the garden not to mention the metal dinosaur stalking nearby.

I quote
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Further down, an area planted with palms and cycads includes a well-placed metal dinosaur who looks perfectly at home in his surroundings.
Cycads are mentioned in
A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA
By Geoff Crowhurst
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 106 October 2021

For photographs see
https://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/106-crowhurst.html
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Places to visit / KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
« Last post by Hilary on April 01, 2024, 08:24:00 AM »
KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
Cape Town, South Africa.

The photos of plants seen in Kirstenbosch were sent to me by a nephew who visited the gardens in August 2023.

There are many articles in THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN mentioning Kirstenbosch, I will be referring to several of them.

First a general view of the garden. 

THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 71 January 2013
An interesting article all about the garden
KIRSTENBOSCH BOTANICAL GARDEN by Margaret Johnston

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Miscellaneous / Re: Plants of the world on postage stamps
« Last post by Hilary on March 31, 2024, 07:06:15 AM »
Thunbergia alata

A stamp issued by Tanzania in 1994 in a series named
 TROPICAL FLOWERS

Read THUNBERGIA ALATA by Peter Dinning in
 THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 90 October 2017
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Miscellaneous / Re: Plants of the world on postage stamps
« Last post by Hilary on March 30, 2024, 07:10:30 AM »
Clematis tangutica
 A stamp issued by Poland in 1984

This plant is mentioned in TWO GARDENS by Carole Cross
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 78 October 2014
Photographs illustrating this article can be found here.

http://www.mediterraneangardensocietyarchive.org/78-twogardens.html
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