
Compassberg
One of the the Highest Mountains in the Eastern Cape and situated close to Graaff-Reinet and just north of Nieu Bethesda. It is renowned for its endemic plants.
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Insecta

Dimorphotheca caulescens

Astroloba

Albuca

Aloe broomii

Haworthia

Blepharis mitrata

Cotyledon papillaris

Crassula columnaris
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Taxonomy term
Albuca
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La. albus = white or albicans = becoming white; referring to the colouring of some Albuca flowers.
Astroloba
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From the Greek astro-, stellate; lobos, lobe.
Astroloba Uitewaal.
Genus of caulescent succulent perennials indigenous to the Karoo regions of South Africa. Plants offset from the base to form clusters. Leaves hard succulent, sharp, keeled, mucronate and pentastichous. Flowers tubular. Six perianth lobes in relatively actinomorphic arrangement.
Crassula columnaris
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From the Latin columna = a "pillar", referring to the columnar appearance
Delosperma
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Gk. delos = visible, open, transparent; sperma = seed; referring to seeds that are easily visible as they are in an unenclosed chamber of the capsule which has no covering membrane.
Dipcadi
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A Turkish name originally for the grape hyacinth, Muscari.
Gnidia
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Derivation uncertain. Linnaeus only states ‘habitat in Aethiopa’, Africa, where it is widely distributed. Possibly Gnidia was named after a Greek city, Knidos, where a kind of laurel grew, or Cnidus in Caria (modern Turkey) (Hugh Glen). Another possibility is that it could be a Greek word for Daphne or laurel; in Greek mythology, Daphne was a pretty nymph who was turned into a laurel bush (WPU Jackson). It might also have been named after Knossos in Crete (spelled Knidiossos in one version), with the G being substituted for K.
Haemanthus humilis
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From the Latin humilis = ‘humble’; referring to a low or sprawling habit
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.
Haworthia arachnoidea
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Haworthia nigra
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From the latin nigra = 'black'
Lobelia
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For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.
Moraea
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Linnaeus married Sara Elisabeth Moraea; her father was Dr. Johan Moraeus, the town physician of Falun. The name "Morea" was originally given by Philip Miller after "Robert More of Shropshire", but was taken over by Linnaeus and changed to Moraea.
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