Gaika's Kop
A spectacular mountain peak above the town of Hogsback
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Agapanthus praecox
Helichrysum cymosum
Kniphofia northiae
Stachys aethiopica
Prismatocarpus campanuloides
Delosperma crassuloides
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Hebenstretia dura
Polygala
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Taxonomy term
Lepidostephium
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Monopsis unidentata
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From Latin uni = 'one' and dentata = 'tooth'
Polygala
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Gk. poly = much; gala = milk; so-called from the belief that cattle grazing in fields with this plant produced more milk. (San Marcos growers in the United States claim that Polygala virgata ‘Portola’ has this property but the authors could find no scientific evidence).
Prismatocarpus campanuloides
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From the Latin campanularis = 'bell shaped'; referring to the flower shape that resembles the genus Campanula
Protea caffra
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From the Latin caffrorum referring to British Kaffraria, the name given to the area between the Kei and Keiskamma rivers in the latter half of the 19th century
Senecio lanifer
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From the Latin ‘lani’ / ‘lana’ meaning ‘wool’; and the Latin ‘fer’ / ‘ferus’ meaning ‘bearing’.
Silene burchellii
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Commemorating William John Burchell (1781-1863), a 19th-century English explorer, British naturalist, traveller, artist and author. He discovered and documented many species during his travels through Southern Africa. He landed in Cape Town in 1810 and undertook many smaller trips. From 1811-1815 he covered over 7000km. He returned to England with over 50 000 plant specimens and published two volumes entitled Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa in 1822 and 1824.
Striga
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La. strigo, from stringo = to grasp and hold fast. This word is associated with strigis = furrow, channel; and strix = screech owl, hag and witch. This parasitic plant, known as ‘witchweed’, is a vicious invasive species that seriously damages crop cereals by colonising the underground, and in so doing wipes out crops. The word striga can be used in the sense of rendering victims prematurely aged and weak.
Striga bilabiata
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Thamnocalamus
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Gk. thamnos = bush; kalamus = reed, hence ‘bushy reed’; referring to a species of clumpforming bamboo found in the grass family.
Tritonia disticha
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From the Greek ‘di’ / ‘di’ meaning ‘two’; and the Greek ‘sticha’ / ‘stichos’ meaning ‘row’.The leaves are in two rows.
Zaluzianskya
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For Adam Zalusiansky von Zaluzian (1558–1613), Bohemian botanist and physician, lecturer and administrator at Charles University in Prague, author of Methodus Herbariae Libri Tres (1592). He was the first man to argue for the separation of botany from medicine, and for a universal classification of plants years before Linnaeus. He stated (in translation): ‘It is customary to connect medicine with botany, yet scientific treatment demands that we should consider each separately. For the fact is that in every art, theory must be disconnected and separated from practice, and the two must be dealt with singly and individually in their proper order before they are united. And for that reason, in order that botany (which is, as it were, a special branch of physics) may form a unit by itself before it can be brought into connection with other sciences, it must be divided and unyoked from medicine.’ Quotation from Herbals: Their Origin and Evolution (Agnes Arbe).