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/
Nodes
Nemesia pinnata
Dischisma ciliatum
Silene
Manulea caledonica
Nemesia acuminata
Microdon dubius
Pseudoselago verbenacea
Teedia lucida
Selago aspera
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Taxonomy term
Oxalis
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From the Greek oxys = sharp, sour or acid and (h)als = salt. The plant is frequently consumed for its sour taste caused by the oxalic acid, particularly the flowering stalks of O. pes-caprae. In large quantities the oxalic acid inhibits digestion and in stock leads to the condition 'dikpens' or bloated belly.
Oxalis commutata
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From the Latin ‘commutata’ / ‘commutatus’ meaning ‘changed’
Oxalis polyphylla
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From Latin poly = 'many' and phyllon = 'leaf'. It may also refer to a leaf divided into many leaflets.
Pachites
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From the Greek pachys, thick; alluding to the column.
Paranomus
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From the Greek para, beyond, contrary to; nomos, custom, law; referring to the leaves which carry dichotomously branched veins, are not dorsiventral and in many species are of two entirely different shapes in the adult bush.
Pelargonium
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Gk. pelargos = a stork; referring to the beak of the fruit which resembles a stork’s bill (cf Geranium, Erodium).
Pelargonium cucullatum
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From the Latin cucullatus = ‘hooded’
Pelargonium myrrhifolium
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From the Greek ‘myrrhi’ / ‘myrrhis’ meaning ‘myrrh’; and the Latin ‘folium’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Phylica pubescens
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From the Latin pubescens meaning ‘downy’ with short soft hairs
Phylica spicata
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From the Latin spicatus = ‘spiked’
Podalyria
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For Podalirius (La.), from Podaleirios (Gk.), son of Asklepios, god of healing. He and his brother, Machaon were physicians to the Greek army during the Trojan wars, as described in the Iliad. The brothers’ great feat was the healing of the festering foot of Philoctetes, who was badly needed for his arrows, but whose fetid stench sorely disturbed the warriors. The flowers of this genus are strongly fragrant but not unpleasantly so, rather sweet-smelling.
Polyarrhena reflexa
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From the Latin reflexus = ‘bending back’
Polygala
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Gk. poly = much; gala = milk; so-called from the belief that cattle grazing in fields with this plant produced more milk. (San Marcos growers in the United States claim that Polygala virgata ‘Portola’ has this property but the authors could find no scientific evidence).
Polygala myrtifolia
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From the Greek ‘myrt’ / ‘myrtos’ meaning ‘myrtle’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.