Near Breakfast Vlei, Peddie
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1969
- Subjects: Crinum campanulatum -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12817 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016531
- Description: White Vlei Lilies (Crinum campanulatum). Usually they are a deep pink.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1969
Cape and Gurney's Sugerbird habitat, Hoho Peak, Pirie Mountain, King William's Town, Ciskei, 1402 m asl
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1963
- Subjects: Sugarbirds -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Birds -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Cliffortia -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12364 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013771
- Description: Looking westwards from top of Hoho Peak (Pirie West Peak) over Protea thickets in immediate foreground to the mid-picture ridge covered in Cliffortia fynbos and which might once have held dense Protea subvestita and /or Protea multibracteata thickets. Some of the latter still growing below the subvestita thickets there. iNtaba knNdoda Peak in distance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1963
Amanzi Farm, 8 km east of Uitenhage
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1962-07-05
- Subjects: Uitenhage (South Africa) , Aloe ferox -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13324 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017004
- Description: Aloe ferox in full flower. Typical veld with an abundance of aloes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1962-07-05
Amanzi Farm, 8 km east of Uitenhage
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1962-07-05
- Subjects: Uitenhage (South Africa) , Aloe ferox -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Aloe africana -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13325 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017005
- Description: Mixed aloe species in good number on dry veld. Aloe ferox in flower with probably Aloe africana among them.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1962-07-05
Northfacing slope down to the Buffalo River, 5 km north of King William's Town, Ciskei
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1960-08-20
- Subjects: Aloe striata -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12662 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014069
- Description: Coral Aloes Aloe striata. Much of this hillside was covered with them but the dryness of the grass hides their redness in the picture. Many sunbirds were active at the time the photo was taken.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960-08-20
Looking across the Keiskamma basin from West Pirie Peak (Hoho Peak) to the three Hogsback peaks. To the left Bhukazana, centre Nguku (flat-top) and Mnyameni to the right
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1960-08-09
- Subjects: Protea subvestita -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12818 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016532
- Description: Between these three and Chata Peak to the far right is Gaika's Kop, a truncated spitskop in the distance. On the slopes of Bhukazana a dense tall growth of Protea subvestita thrives as it does out of the picture to the immediate left of the photographer.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960-08-09
In a vlei between Breakfast Vlei and Line Drift in the Peddie District, Ciskei
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 196u
- Subjects: Crinum campanulatum -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12424 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013831
- Description: Pure white Crinum campanulatum. One of many such vleis with these Crinums now in flower, some with pink flowers only, some with mixed white and pink. Others had only white flowers.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 196u
King William's Town
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-09-20
- Subjects: Gazania -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12658 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014065
- Description: 9 different centres from the same field of Gazania.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959-09-20
King William's Town
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-09-20
- Subjects: Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12659 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014066
- Description: Note the variable centre.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959-09-20
King William's Town
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-09-20
- Subjects: Gazania -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12657 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014064
- Description: Field of Gazania.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959-09-20
Immediately to the north of King William's Town and beside the Buffalo River
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-08-23
- Subjects: Combretum -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Asteracae -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12665 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014072
- Description: Field of forbs (Asteracae), scattered Combretum trees surrounding.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959-08-23
Mount Thomas on the inner range of the Amathole Mountains between Hogsback to the west and Dohne Peak above Stutterheim to the east
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1959-06-01
- Subjects: Protea subvestita -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Protea multibracteata -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Sugarbirds -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Birds -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12361 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013768
- Description: This whole range could well have been covered in both Protea subvestita and Protea multibracteata before being heavily overstocked with cattle. Even on the flats in the foreground relict patches of multibracteata occurred until the 1970's. Good populations of sugarbirds could therefore have existed.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959-06-01
Near Hunt's Drift on the Great Fish River, Albany
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1958-12-28
- Subjects: Acacia karroo -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12600 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014007
- Description: Single Acacia karroo tree in full flower.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-12-28
Woodlands Hill on King William's Town / Stutterheim border towards Komga
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1958-12-16
- Subjects: Senecio juniperinus -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12664 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014071
- Description: Spread of Senecio juniperinus - an annual.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-12-16
Hogsback, near Alice, Ciskei
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Zantedeschia aethiopica -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12427 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013834
- Description: Spread of Zantedeschia aethiopica in damp hollow between pine plantations. Buttresses of southern Hogsback peak in distance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Hamburg, Keiskamma River Mouth, Peddie
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 195u
- Subjects: Cisticola juncidis -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Birds -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12360 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013767
- Description: When this grass invaded the newly-deposited mudflats at Hamburg, Cisticola juncidis moved in despite tidal water beneath
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 195u
King William's Town
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 195u
- Subjects: Birds -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12358 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013765
- Description: Figure points to bush where nest was built.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 195u
Vegetation on the False Island at Kwaaihoek, Alexandria
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1941?
- Subjects: Kwaaihoek (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12310 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013701
- Description: With replica of cross planted there in 1488 by Bartholomeu Dias. The scrub vegetation is dense, short and windblown, well-adapted to severe conditions there. Vegetation on the False Island at Kwaaihoek, Alexandria, 5 km west of Boesmans Mouth along the beach.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1941?
Looking down from the top of Highlands mountain to the homestead on Carl's Rust farm far below, and the upper Kariega Valley
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1905-06-03
- Subjects: Bobartia -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12623 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014030
- Description: In the foreground are massed rushes (biesies) of Bobartia (Ncaluka, Xhosa - sometimes called whip reed).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1905-06-03
Mr. Harold Norton's farm 'Clifton', in the Grahamstown district
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1905-05-17
- Subjects: Portulacaria afra -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Thatched roofs -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12597 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014004
- Description: The 'thatch' is made from the stems of Spekboom trees, Portulacaria afra. The dried stems are beaten with stones to flatten them, and are then packed on top of each other to form the thatch. There is no grassy thatching material in this dry Fish River area. No wonder the Spekboom is been destroyed so quickly.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1905-05-17