Jonaskop
A 1646m high peak on the north side of the Riviersonderend mountains. It has been sjubject to transplant experiments
Nodes
Anaxeton hirsutum
Muraltia concava
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Serruria
Cliffortia cruciata
Phylica stenantha
Cliffortia
Cliffortia cruciata
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Taxonomy term
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.
Brunia latebracteata
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From the Latin latus = 'broad' or 'wide' and bracteatus = 'bracts'
Brunia variabilis
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From the Latin variabilis = 'variable'
Cliffortia
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For George Clifford (1685–1760), Dutch merchant and banker, amateur botanist and zoologist. He was a director of the Dutch East India Company and owned a magnificent garden at Hartecamp, Netherlands, as well as a private zoo in Amsterdam. George Clifford is best known as a patron of the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, whom he employed as ‘hortulanus’ and who catalogued the family’s unique collection of plants, herbarium and library. The result was Linnaeus’s 530-page book Hortus Cliffortianus (1738), his first important work, in which he described many species from Clifford’s garden. The publication was paid for by George Clifford as a private edition.
Cyclopia
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Gk. kyklos = circle, round, circular; ops = eye; referring to the circular base of the calyx; a more likely derivation than from Kyklops, the one-eyed monster of Homer’s Odyssey.
Edmondia
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The previous belief that this genus might honour James W. Edmond, Scottish botanist (died 1815) has been discredited as new evidence indicates he died in 1875. Possibly named after Englishborn Edmund Davall (Davallia. q.v.) It is possible that the French botanist Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini (1781–1832) mis-spelled Devall’s first name ‘Edmund’ as this English word ‘Edmund’ is spelled ‘Edmond’ in French, hence the genus Edmondia.
Epischoenus
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Gk. epi- = upon usually, here meaning ‘akin to’ the rush genus Schoenus (q.v.).
Erica
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Gk. ereike = to break. The name used for a heath by Theophrastus (372–287 BCE) and Pliny the Elder. The stems are brittle and break easily (Lindsay); or possibly but less likely because of the ability of the plant to break up bladder stones (Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary).
Euryops
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Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
Leucadendron
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Gk. leukos = white; dendron = tree; referring to commonly called ‘witteboom’ or ‘silver tree’.
Othonna sp
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Phylica vulgaris
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Pinus radiata
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From the Latin radiatus = ‘radiating’
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.
Serruria
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For Joseph (Josephus) Serrurier (1663–1742), Dutch physician, philosopher, mathematician, botanist and physicist. He studied at the University of Utrecht, obtaining an MA degree in 1690 and qualifying as a doctor of medicine on the same day. During his career at Utrecht, he became professor of philosophy and mathematics (1705), professor of botany and medicine (1716), and the university’s rector on three occasions. Among his works, he authored an extensive treatise on experimental physics, Physicae Experimentis Innixae Compendiosa Tractatio (1700), a commemorative volume on Adrianus Reland, orientalist, linguist and physicist; and created a new hortus botanicus, which he modelled on the University of Leiden’s widely acclaimed botanical garden designed by Herman Boerhaave.