Cedarberg
A semi-arid largely wilderness area comprising rugged mountains. The mountains are north-south trending and several ranges wide. It is home to a large number of endemic species including the famous snow Protea, Protea cryophila.
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Erica parilis
Erica nudiflora
Erica monsoniana
Erica maximiliani
Erica mammosa
Erica maderi
Erica leucanthera
Erica involucrata
Erica inflata
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Taxonomy term
Erica maderi
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Named after P.A. Mader, a land surveyor in the latter half of the last century, who found the species
Erica maximiliani
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Named after acclaimed botanist Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (1872–1925) or his brother, the plant collector Rudolf Schlechter Maximilian Schlechter (1874-1960).
Erica monsoniana
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Named in honour of Lady Ann Monson
Erica nudiflora
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FRom the Latin nudis = 'bare' and flora = 'flower'; referring to the hairlessness of the flowers
Erica placentiflora
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From the Latin placenta = 'a cake'
Erica senilis
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From the Latin senilis = like an old man; referring to the white hairs
Erica verecunda
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From the Latin verecundus = 'modest'
Eriocephalus ericoides
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From the Latin -oides meaning ‘resembling'; resembling the genus Erica, the heath
Euclea linearis
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From the Latin linearis = ‘relating to lines’ or 'linear'; typically referring to the straight leaves
Euclea tomentosa
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From the Latin tomentosus = 'densely woolly'
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.
Euphorbia mauritanica var. mauritanica
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From the Latin Mauritanica / Mauritania the country in northwest Africa which is now Algeria and Morocco, and from where the 'moors' came from
Euphorbia tuberculata
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From the Latin tuberculum = a small 'bump', 'swelling', 'protuberance' or 'pimple'