Darling Wildflower Area
This is the broad area that encompasses the deep sands and renosterveld of Darling and the surrounds.
Nodes
Ruschia indecora
Aizoon paniculatum
Trachyandra tabularis
Apium prostratum
Lampranthus
Pteronia camphorata
Nestlera biennis
Indigofera meyeriana
Aspalathus ternata
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Taxonomy term
Erica bolusiae
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Named after Louisa Harriet Margaret Bolus (nee Kensit) (1877-1970). Great grand-uncle Harry Bolus appointed her as Curator of his private (now Bolus) herbarium in 1903, a post she held till her retirement in 1955 at the age of 77. In 1912 she married Frank Bolus, Harry's youngest son, also a keen amateur botanist. She specialized in Ericaceae, Orchidaceae, Iridaceae and Mesembryanthemaceae.
Erica ferrea
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From the Latin ferreus = 'pertaining to iron'; probably referring to the hard, dry habitat preferred by the plant
Eriocephalus africanus
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From the Latin africanus = ‘relating to Africa’
Eriocephalus racemosus
(Kapkoppie){"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[]}
From the Latin racemosus = ‘clustered like a grape’
Eriospermum
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Gk. erion = wool; sperma = seed. The seed is covered with white hairs.
Euphorbia
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Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
Euphorbia mauritanica
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From the Latin Mauritanica / Mauritania the country in northwest Africa which is now Algeria and Morocco, and from where the 'moors' came from
Euryops
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Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
Euryops linifolius
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From the Latin linum = 'the genus of flax' or 'fishing line' and folium = 'leaf'; i.e. long and thin
Eustegia filiformis
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From the Latin fili / filum meaning ‘thread’; and the Latin formis / formis meaning ‘in the form of’.
Eustegia minuta
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From the Latin minutus = ‘minute’ / 'very small'
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.
Felicia
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Origin uncertain. La. felix = happy, cheerful, though in the neuter plural form felicia = happy things; possibly a reference to the bright flowers. Other sources vaguely refer to a mysterious German official in Regensburg called Felix who died in 1846 but speculatively and more probably for the Italian Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723–1789), an Italian scholar established in Yverdon who led the European team that wrote the Yverdon Encyclopedia, published between 1770 and 1780 in 58 quarto volumes. This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.