Mpumalanga
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Anacampseros lubbersii
Euphorbia perangusta
Aloe
Euphorbia monteiroi
Kalanchoe lanceolata
Adenium multiflorum
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Aloe arborescens
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Taxonomy term
Aloe
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Gk. aloē (from earlier Semitic word alloeh) = bitter. The liquid or dried juice found in the leaves is bitter.
Aloe arborescens
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from the Latin arborēscō (“become a tree”).
Ceropegia multiflora subsp. tentaculata
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From the Latin tentaculatus = 'tentacle'
Crassula perfoliata var. heterotricha
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Duvalia polita
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From the Latin 'politus' meaning polished/glossy
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.
Frithia pulchra
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From the Latin pulchra = 'beautiful'
Huernia confusa
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From the Latin confusus = 'disordered' or 'obscure'; generally either a species that is difficult to distinguish from another, or with a confusing taxonomic history