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It would have been ideal to have someone with us who knew the flora.  I didn’t even try to identify the trees and ferns.  The flowering plants were reasonably numerous, and of course many of them are endemic to montane East Africa.  Especially interesting to me were the giant senecios and lobelias in the moorland zone.  The following photos are roughly arranged by life zone.  Please let me know if I have wrong identifications of any of them, or if you know the identity of those which are not labeled.            d.logen@verizon.net                                                                          

                                      Mimulopsis gibberoa                                                 Impatiens kilimanjari

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Impatiens pseudoviola

               Lobelia gibberoa                                          Parochetus communis

            Trifolium cryptopodium                                              Hebenstretia dentata   

   Unknown #1                                                             Unknown #2

Unknown #3

                                                                                  Unknown #4

                                          Unknown #5                                                             Unknown #5 closeup

The color variations with Impatiens kilimanjari were interesting.

As was this white Impatiens pseudoviola.  Douglas, our guide said he had never seen a white one.    These last two plants were on the Mweka Route, on our descent.

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Unknown #6

Unknown #7

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