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.
Nodes
Crassula corallina
Stomatium
Gnidia
Stomatium
Boophone disticha
Dipcadi ciliare
Cotyledon papillaris
Haemanthus humilis
Albuca
Pages
Taxonomy term
Ornithogalum
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Gk. ornithos = bird; gala = milk, presumably referring to the colostrum-like, high fat secretions produced by the Colombidae (‘pigeon’s milk’) and stored in the crop for feeding the young. Maybe this somewhat resembles the gooey sap that exudes from the cut stems. Some authors suggest that the name merely refers to the milky whiteness of some flowers, while ‘bird’s milk’ to the ancient Greeks was a colloquial expression for something wonderful.
Stomatium
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Gk. stoma = an opening, mouth; -ium = characteristic of; referring to the pairs of toothed leaves that resemble an open mouth.
Tulbaghia
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For Ryk Tulbagh (Rijk Tulbagh) (1699–1771), Dutch governor of the Cape Colony from 1751 to 1771. When only 16, he emigrated to the Cape as a Dutch East India Company employee on a five-year contract to be used as needed. The governor, Maurice Pasques Chavonnes, recognised the young man’s ability and gave him an administrative post as assistant clerk of the secretary of the political council, the start of a career that ended in his being made governor of the Cape. He was a responsible governor who, inter alia, codified the slave laws of the country with set rules for slave management. He corresponded with Linnaeus in 1763 and sent him seeds, and several birds. The town of Tulbagh is named after him.
Wahlenbergia sp
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Named in honour of Georg (Goran) Wahlenberg (1780 – 1851), a Swedish botanist, successor to Carl Thunberg, and author of A Botany of Lapland.