Second trip to PE – Grahamstown area in 2000.

Met Tony Dold and David Cumming at the Pig and Whistle in Bathurst where we had coffee and made a plan for the day. Tony wanted to head toward East London to photograph some non Haworthia. David was ready to guide or follow along. So we went to Tony’s new site while David and I planned to spend the afternoon at a few cymbiformis sites in the Port Alfred area.

Kiwane is west of East London on the coast. Here we found Haworthia cooperi var. leightonii growing in the hot sun in baked mud flats

Along the way we stopped at Chalumna, west of East London to see Haworthia cymbiformis var cymbiformis.

On our way back west we stopped at an interesting looking rock slab near the Tyolomnqa Bridge and found a tiny and very tooth Haworthia. I was stumped as to which variety. Turns out it has become a new variety – Haworthia cooperi var. doldii.

Later in the day David and I went around the Bathurst area stopping to see Haworthia venusta (a hairy cooperi).

South of Adelide we found a more typical cooperi in flower.