Ozoroa dispar, torrie or kliphout

The sandy plains around the Namaqua klipkoppe are mostly treeless. An occasional Ozoroa dispar tree may be spotted among the large rocks of a klipkop (stone head) offering suitable growth conditions.

These granite boulders characterising the klipkoppe region may individually be huge. Less seen plants may grow around them, the vegetation also slightly taller near the rocky hills than on the flats.

This veld is sometimes ploughed in patches for crop farming, including wheat. Where this has happened in the past monoculture flower growth presents a single colour or reduced colour variety on fallow and abandoned fields. Crop farming has in many places been abandoned after fruitless efforts not meriting the cost, due to frequent and sometimes prolonged drought periods. The veld never ploughed tends to present diverse species and flower colours.

The locals tend to talk about drier and hotter conditions of recent times, worse than the better old times of living memory (Mannheimer and Curtis, (Eds.), 2009; Le Roux, et al, 2005; Coates Palgrave, 2002; Eliovson 1990; iNaturalist).