Bainskloof
Bainskloof is a quaint town tucked away at the top of Bain's Pass. This pass was built by Italian convicts, the operation directed by master road-builder, Sir Thomas Baines. It is home to the Limietberg Nature Reserve as well as housing the University of Cape Town biology departments Stonemansion hut.
Nodes
Geissorhiza pseudinaequalis
Troglophyton parvulum
Osmitopsis afra
Disa atricapilla
Thereianthus minutus
Gladiolus phoenix
Lapeirousia neglecta
Ixia metelerkampiae
Ursinia abrotanifolia
Taxonomy term
Aspalathus
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From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Lachenalia flava
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From the Latin flavus = 'yellow' or 'golden'
Leucospermum tottum
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Moraea
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Linnaeus married Sara Elisabeth Moraea; her father was Dr. Johan Moraeus, the town physician of Falun. The name "Morea" was originally given by Philip Miller after "Robert More of Shropshire", but was taken over by Linnaeus and changed to Moraea.
Nemesia
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Gk. nemesion, nemeseion from nemo = to distribute, to enjoy, to pasture, to feed; or nemos = wooded pasture, glade, a grove; name used by Dioscorides for a similar plant, referring to their habitat.
Protea
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Gk. After Proteus, a mythological sea-god, who could change his form at will, taking new shapes. Seemingly Linnaeus was so over-awed by the variety of plants sent to him from the Cape that he named the genus Protea. The authors could not confirm this.
Thereianthus
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Gk. thereios = summer; anthos = flower; summerflowering.
Watsonia
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For William Watson (1715–1787), English physician, apothecary, botanist and naturalist. He introduced the work of Linnaeus and his botanical classification system to Britain. He was the first scientist to observe the flash of light from the discharge of a Leyden jar and to show that electricity could pass through a vacuum and that it had a positive and negative charge; he coined the word ‘circuit’. His articles, entitled Experiments on the Nature of Electricity, appeared from 1745 onward in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, of which he became a member (1741) and vice president (1772). Both he and Benjamin Franklin discovered some of the same characteristics of electricity at the same time, but independently. The two men became friends.