Addo ppc trail
Nodes
Lobostemon
Pollichia campestris
Carpha
Bulbine
Crassula
Halleria lucida
Zantedeschia aethiopica
Oxalis
Haworthia
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Taxonomy term
Bulbine
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La. bulbus = an onion or bulb. A misnomer in that the plants do not have a bulbous base.
Bulbinella
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Bulbine (q.v.); Gk. -ellus, -ella = diminutive.
Carpha
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Gk. karphos = straw, twig or other small dry body; referring to its appearance.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Halleria lucida
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From the Latin lucidus = 'shiny' or 'glossy'
Haworthia
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For Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768–1833), English botanist, entomologist, carcinologist and an authority on succulents and lepidoptera. He did pioneering work in North America, Canada and Mexico focusing on cacti, and published Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum (1819) with subsequent supplements. In England he collected and studied butterflies, publishing Lepidoptera Britannica (1803–1828). During his life he amassed a collection of over 40 000 insects. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal Horticultural societies and a friend of Sir Joseph Banks. In 1833 he lent support to the founding of what was to become the Royal Entomological Society of London.
Helichrysum
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; chrysos = gold; referring to the bright yellow flowerheads of many of the flowers of species in this genus.
Hermannia
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For Paul Hermann (1646–1695), German-born Dutch physician and botanist. He graduated in medicine at the universities of Leiden and Padua, became a ship’s medical officer (1672–1677) for the Dutch East India Company and went to Sri Lanka via the Cape, where he made the first known herbarium collection of local plants, now housed in the Sloane Herbarium, British Museum of Natural History and at Oxford. In 1679 he became professor of botany at the University of Leiden and director of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, Europe’s finest botanical garden. His 1687 publication Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus includes 34 Cape plants, and his proposed Prodomus Plantaerum Africanarum was to contain 791 items, but untimely death intervened.
Hermannia aspera
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From the Latin aspera = 'rough'
Lobostemon
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Gk. lobos = lobe; stemon = thread, stamen; referring to the filaments being opposite the corolla lobes.
Oxalis
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From the Greek oxys = sharp, sour or acid and (h)als = salt. The plant is frequently consumed for its sour taste caused by the oxalic acid, particularly the flowering stalks of O. pes-caprae. In large quantities the oxalic acid inhibits digestion and in stock leads to the condition 'dikpens' or bloated belly.
Pelargonium
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Gk. pelargos = a stork; referring to the beak of the fruit which resembles a stork’s bill (cf Geranium, Erodium).
Pelargonium citronellum
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From the Latin citrus = 'citrus' or 'lemon', and -ella = 'small'; referring to a somewhat citrus smell when the leaves are crushed
Zantedeschia aethiopica
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From the Latin aethiopicus = 'Ethiopia'; pertaining frequently to Africa in general, not just Ethiopia.