Farm 215
Farm 215 is a private nature reserve run by Maarten Groos. It has over 800 plant species including over 50 rare and threatened plant species. Besides leopards that are recorded by their multiple camera traps, many animals including over 300 bird species have been documented.
A number of programmes in aid of conservation are testament to their ethos, including alien eradication and tree planting programmes. Farm 215 is the first reforestation site of the Trees For Tourism Programme of the South African Reforestation Trust with over 15 000 trees planted as of 2018. Farm 215 is also a conservation servitude by Fauna and Flora Internatiional. Their first step was to rehabilitate Elim Ferricrete Fynbos which is a critically endangered habitat.
Their accommodation facilities includes beautiful accommodation surrounded by fynbos for up to 14 people with a restaurant open between August and May. Find out more at https://farm215.co.za/
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Leucadendron gandogeri
Leucadendron xanthoconus
Protea cynaroides
Leucadendron gandogeri
Leucadendron xanthoconus
Protea cynaroides
Protea neriifolia
Leucadendron xanthoconus
Mimetes cucullatus
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Taxonomy term
Aspalathus
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From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Aspalathus ericifolia
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From the Latin ‘erici’ / ‘erica’ meaning ‘heath’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Aspalathus hirta
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From the Latin hirtus = 'hairy' and flora = 'flower'
Aspalathus juniperina
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From the resemblance to juniperus, a ‘juniper tree’
Asteraceae
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Named after the genus Aster. The name Aster comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀστήρ (astḗr), meaning "star", referring to the shape of the flower head.
Aulax umbellata
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From the Latin umbellatus meaning ‘equipped with parasols’. This typically refers to an umbellate arrangement of flowers.
Banksia ericifolia
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From the Latin ‘erici’ / ‘erica’ meaning ‘heath’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Bobartia
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For Jacob Bobart (1599–1680), German botanist and the first horti praefectus (superintendent, head gardener) of the Oxford Physic Garden; which cultivated medical herbs; the first garden of its kind in England. He was the author of Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis, sci Latino-Anglicus et Anglico-Latinus (1648); a catalogue of 1600 plants that were in the garden. His son, Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641–1719), succeeded his father as horti praefectus and became acting professor of botany at Oxford.
Bobartia longicyma
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From the Latin longus = 'long' and cyma = 'a cluster of flowers'
Bulbine
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La. bulbus = an onion or bulb. A misnomer in that the plants do not have a bulbous base.
Carpobrotus edulis
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From the Latin edulis meaning 'edible'
Chasmanthe
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Gk. khasme = wide open, gaping; anthos = flower; alluding to the shape of the corolla.