Yes there's not too many Disa species in Zambia but we do have some spectacular ones that grow here!

Hopefully someone is working on those 10 species that you mention need splitting!

Interesting! Does the Vigna still flower if you keep it growing over winter? I would think that it needs a dry dormancy for the flower initiation to happen.

Despite the dry, there's still some lovely things popping up. Nature is amazing!

Thank you, I will

Thank you! Cheers!

It's a private reserve on a cattle ranch in which individuals can buy membership to walk in the woodland and enjoy the space. Cattle are ranged through certain areas periodically but it's completely intact woodland. The miombo is well known for its lack of birds at certain times of year and when you do come across them, they usually travel around in mixed species groups. As for small mammals, they are there but will usually be hiding during the day and come out at night to forage.

Cheers Geophat! Hopefully you've come across S. petersiana up around Kitwe!

I hope that you are not giving up on those Asteraceae species. I'm working on the notion that persistence will pay off eventually!!!

Thanks Andrew, the little seedling bulbs that I collected have established well at least so looking forward to them blooming in several years.

Hi Andrew, thanks for your encouragement! Exploring the natural world is definitely one of life's joys and I hope to get out more to the Mafingas in future but there's so much around Zambia to explore though with population expansion, your old home of Kitwe and the Copperbelt in general has been heavily developed in the last several decades. We do have 8 species from Crassulaceae in Zambia, 4 Crassula and 4 Kalanchoe. I collected a plant of Crassula vaginata from the Mafinga trip that flowered just a few weeks ago and have come across Kalanchoe lanceolata regularly and Kalanchoe brachyloba occasionally. There's so much to see and since I've been doing botanical work in Zambia over the last several years I've come to love so many families and the diversity that exists here!

@@zambeziflora5113 I never thought exploring good habitat would be so important in my life but it has become so. It ticks the box for exercise , nature and keeping the old brain going Look out for Crassula Alba. It can look similar to Crassula vaginata . Despite its name I dont often see the white flower , I normally see red and yellow forms Also look out for Cotyledon barbeyi. It is the only known species of Cotyledon that extends north out of South Africa and it looks like it hugs the east coast of Africa so it might creep into the eastern parts of Zambia ?

They are really cool and I've not tried to grow this species but have friend who has and he struggles with it. Some of our miombo species are hard to grow well and this might be one of them unfortunately.

Yes I took some cutting material and it seems to be rooting so I have my fingers crossed that it'll survive and thrive. I would prefer to have gotten seed but it was only in flower when I came across it and I probably won't get back to the area when the seeds are ripe.

Cheers buddy! You should come join me one day!

@@zambeziflora5113 For sure, i would definitely love to join you. we should make a plan.

Thanks @lwendooverland1212!

Lots of lying down on the job!!!!

How else is it best to see those tiny little flowers you say I like!!!

No I don't live up in the Mafingas, I was just visiting.

Probably Asplenium theciferum at 4:52

Thanks for the help with the fern ID's. I am not very strong on my knowledge of them and have only recently been in areas where they grow plentifully like in the riparian forest areas on this trip where I could really appreciate them.

I don't know either of those species so will look them up thanks!