Farm 215
Farm 215 is a private nature reserve run by Maarten Groos. It has over 800 plant species including over 50 rare and threatened plant species. Besides leopards that are recorded by their multiple camera traps, many animals including over 300 bird species have been documented.
A number of programmes in aid of conservation are testament to their ethos, including alien eradication and tree planting programmes. Farm 215 is the first reforestation site of the Trees For Tourism Programme of the South African Reforestation Trust with over 15 000 trees planted as of 2018. Farm 215 is also a conservation servitude by Fauna and Flora Internatiional. Their first step was to rehabilitate Elim Ferricrete Fynbos which is a critically endangered habitat.
Their accommodation facilities includes beautiful accommodation surrounded by fynbos for up to 14 people with a restaurant open between August and May. Find out more at https://farm215.co.za/
Nodes
Leucospermum
Protea compacta
Leucadendron gandogeri
Spatalla curvifolia
Banksia ericifolia
Protea cynaroides
Leucadendron laureolum
Leucadendron xanthoconus
Aulax umbellata
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Taxonomy term
Chironia
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For Chiron, the good ‘civilised’ centaur of Greek mythology who studied medicine, astronomy, music and other arts. When he was accidentally shot, legend has it that Zeus, the god of sky and thunder, put him in the south at Alpha and Beta Centauri, pointers to the Southern Cross; referring to the plant’s medicinal properties.
Chironia linoides
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From the Greek ‘lin’ / ‘linon’ meaning ‘flax’; and the Greek ‘oides’ / ‘oides’ meaning ‘in the form of’.
Chrysanthemoides monilifera
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From the Greek ‘anthe’ / ‘anthos’ meaning ‘flower ’; and the Greek ‘oides’ / ‘oides’ meaning ‘in the form of’.
Cleretum
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Gk. kleros = fate, chance, lot (as in ‘drawing lots’); -etum = the place dominated by a given plant. In early Sparta public land was apportioned to citizens by drawing lots, with the best land given to those who, by chance, drew a winning lot.
Cliffortia
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For George Clifford (1685–1760), Dutch merchant and banker, amateur botanist and zoologist. He was a director of the Dutch East India Company and owned a magnificent garden at Hartecamp, Netherlands, as well as a private zoo in Amsterdam. George Clifford is best known as a patron of the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, whom he employed as ‘hortulanus’ and who catalogued the family’s unique collection of plants, herbarium and library. The result was Linnaeus’s 530-page book Hortus Cliffortianus (1738), his first important work, in which he described many species from Clifford’s garden. The publication was paid for by George Clifford as a private edition.
Clutia sp
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Conicosia
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Gk. konikos = conical, cone-shaped; referring to the cone-shaped capsule.
Corycium
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Gk. korys = helmet or helmet-like structure; korykion, diminutive of korykos = leather bag. The uppermost three tepals of this coarse, globose flower converge and touch, but not fused together into a hood (shape).
Corymbium africanum
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From the Latin africanus meaning "from Africa"
Corymbium glabrum
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From the Latin glabra meaning ‘smooth’
Cotyledon orbiculata
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From the Latin ‘orbiculata’ / ‘orbiculata’ meaning ‘made into an orb’
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Crassula capensis
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From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
Crassula rupestris
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From the Latin rupestris = ‘associated with caves or rocks’
CRASSULACEAE
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Named after the genus Crassula