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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Leucospermum
Protea eximia
Leucadendron gandogeri
Aulax umbellata
Protea compacta
Serruria elongata
Protea cynaroides
Leucadendron laureolum
Leucadendron xanthoconus
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Taxonomy term
Hakea gibbosa
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From the Latin gibbosus = ‘humped / pouched / tuberculed'
Hakea salicifolia
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From the Latin 'salici' meaning Salix/willow and 'folia' meaning leaves
Helichrysum
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; chrysos = gold; referring to the bright yellow flowerheads of many of the flowers of species in this genus.
Heliophila
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; philein = to love. The plant likes a sunny position.
Heliophila juncea
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From the Latin junceus = ‘resembling a reed’
Hermannia
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For Paul Hermann (1646–1695), German-born Dutch physician and botanist. He graduated in medicine at the universities of Leiden and Padua, became a ship’s medical officer (1672–1677) for the Dutch East India Company and went to Sri Lanka via the Cape, where he made the first known herbarium collection of local plants, now housed in the Sloane Herbarium, British Museum of Natural History and at Oxford. In 1679 he became professor of botany at the University of Leiden and director of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden, Europe’s finest botanical garden. His 1687 publication Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus includes 34 Cape plants, and his proposed Prodomus Plantaerum Africanarum was to contain 791 items, but untimely death intervened.
Hermas
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The origin of the genus name Hermas is not known. Some sources state that Hermas, a freed slave who lived in Rome in the first or second century, was the seer of an apocalypse entitled The Shepherd, a work treated with great authority in ancient times and ranked with the Holy Bible. According to the Muratorian Canon and also stated in the Liberian Catalogue, he was the brother of Bishop Pius I, (c 145), who occupied the chair of the church of the city of Rome. However, there is no evidence that the genus name referred to him when Linnaeus created it in 1771.
Hibiscus aethiopicus
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From the Latin aethiopicus = 'Ethiopia'; pertaining frequently to Africa in general, not just Ethiopia.
Holothrix
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Gk. holos = entire, whole; thrix (thricos) = hair; the plant is hairy all over.
Holothrix villosa
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Iridaceae
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Iris = rainbow in Latin and Greek; Iris was also the Greek goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods.
Ixia
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Ancient Gk. Ixia = a Linnaeus-derived name for a plant noted for the variability of its flower colour or Gk. ixos = mistletoe (viscum), birdlime; referring to the viscous sap (WPU Jackson).
Ixia longituba
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From the Latin longus = ‘long’; and tuba = ‘tube’
Ixia micrandra
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From the Latin micrandra = 'small anthers'