Whilst birding the Asir mountains of the
Tanoumah area in southwest Saudi Arabia, I came across a plant I could not
identify. As a result, I asked Irene Linning who is a plant expert and who
previously lived in Saudi Arabia if she could identify it for me. Irene said it
was Felicia abyssinica a plant that grows at high altitude with flowers
about 10 centimeters high and 1.5 centimeters wide. Felicia is a genus
of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae native to open, sunny
habitats in southern Africa, parts of tropical Africa and the Arabian
Peninsula.
