Species Thorncroftia greenii

For George Thorncroft (1857–1934), English merchant with an interest in horticulture, who emigrated to South Africa in 1882 and settled in Barberton, eastern Transvaal. He started collecting seeds and bulbs in about 1889 and sent them to Medley Wood, a South African botanist in Durban, together with herbarium specimens. He also sent specimens to England and the United States, and collected botanical specimens for Durban Herbarium in his later years, the National Herbarium in Pretoria, and for Archdeacon Rogers, a prolific collector. He is credited with having collected more than 4 000 specimens. He wrote occasional articles of a botanical nature under the pen name ‘Kof Kof’.