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    Boophone disticha after fire

    Boophone disticha after fire
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Louis Jordaan

    This mature Boophone disticha plant growing solitary in sandy soil, shows the signs of a recent fire that burnt the veld near Oudtshoorn where it lives.

    Surviving the fire inside the many-layered outer tunic, the partly blackened bulb has produced healthy, ostentatiously undulating leaves as if to show the fire who won. Only the damaged, dry leaf-tips tell the story of the price paid for a successful new growth season (Duncan, et al, 2016; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Pooley, 1998).

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