Cedarberg

Gk. akros = at the tip, end; anthos = flower. The flowers appear, solitary, on a flower stalk.

Gk. agathos = good; osmē = smell, odour; referring to fragrant oils in the glands of the leaves.

From the Latin term for a spear or lance, and is usually used to indicate a species with narrow leaves that taper to a point at one end

Gk. anthos = flower; spermum = seed. Although the flowers are usually dioecious – unisexual, male and female – ‘male’ flowers sometimes have ovaries capable of ripening seed.

From the Greek aspharagos, the name given to the edible Asparagus. A wide-spread genus which is greatly in need of revision. The root-system is an important character in the grouping, but owing to the inadequacy of the existing descriptions and the imperfection of the type specimens, correct identification is often very difficult. The flowering seasons seem to depend very largely on habitat. Some of the spiny species are called Wag-’n-bietjie.

Name from the Greek a, negative, and thanatos, death, in allusion to the persistent dry involucral bracts.