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
Gnidia pinifolia
Gnidia oppositifolia
Struthiola
Gnidia juniperifolia
Struthiola myrsinites
Gnidia anomala
Struthiola tetralepis
Lachnaea aurea
Selago scabrida
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Taxonomy term
Monopsis
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Gk. mono- = one, single; -opsis = resembling; referring to the appearance of the corolla for most species. Every flower looks the same.
Moraea lewisiae
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From the English ‘lewisiae’ / ‘Lewis’ meaning ‘commemorating the botanist of this name’
Muraltia
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After John M. von Muralt, Swiss botanist and author; flourished around 1576.
Muraltia spinosa
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From the Latin spinosus = ‘thorny’
Myrica quercifolia
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From the Latin ‘querci’ / ‘quercus’ meaning ‘oak’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Myrica serrata
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From the Latin serratus = ‘serrated’ or 'saw-toothed'. Each tooth is angled more on one side than the other (forward pointing) as compared with dentate which is equally angled on both sides forming triangular teeth.
Nemesia
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Gk. nemesion, nemeseion from nemo = to distribute, to enjoy, to pasture, to feed; or nemos = wooded pasture, glade, a grove; name used by Dioscorides for a similar plant, referring to their habitat.
Olea capensis
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From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
ORCHIDACEAE
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From the Greek orchis, testis; referring to the resemblance to the twin pseudo-bulbs of some genera.
Ornithogalum canadense
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Of Canada or NE America
Oscularia
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La. osculum = small mouth; aria = possessing; from the fanciful likeness of the toothed leaves.
Osteospermum polygaloides
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Resembling members of the Genus Polygala (Polygalaceae)