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 barbata
Sutera hispida
Diosma
Euchaetis burchellii
Adenandra uniflora
Diosma
Diosma
Agathosma
Agathosma
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Taxonomy term
Prismatocarpus
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Gk. prisma = a thin saw, hence angular; karpos = fruit. The slender inferior ovary becomes greatly elongated; the fruits are shaped like prisms.
Prismatocarpus sessilis
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From the Latin ‘sessilis’ / ‘sessilis’ meaning ‘spreading’
Protea
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Gk. After Proteus, a mythological sea-god, who could change his form at will, taking new shapes. Seemingly Linnaeus was so over-awed by the variety of plants sent to him from the Cape that he named the genus Protea. The authors could not confirm this.
Protea compacta
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From the Latin compactus = ‘compacted’
Protea eximia
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Protea longifolia
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From the Latin longus = ‘long’ and the Latin folius = ‘leaf’
Protea repens
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From the Latin repens = ‘creeping’
Protea scabra
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From the Latin scabo meaning 'to scratch' meaning 'rough'
Protea speciosa
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From the Latin speciosa / speciosus meaning ‘beautiful’
Pseudoselago
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Gk. pseudo- = false, resembling but not the real Selago (q.v.). Looks like Selago whose seeds are tapered on both ends compared with Pseudoselago only at one end; also Pseudoselago has a yellow-orange patch inside the flower which is not present in Selago.
Psoralea
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Gk. psoraleos = scabby. The plants are covered with rough warty-looking glandular dots.
Psoralea pinnata
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From the Latin ‘pinnata’ / ‘pinnatus’ meaning ‘feathered’
Pterygodium
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Gk. pterygodium = diminutive of pteryx = wing. Descriptive probably of the dorsal sepal and petals, which are united into an erect, hood-shaped segment, and of the lateral sepals, similar in shape and size to the dorsal, giving a wing-like appearance to the flower.