Jonkershoek NR
Nestled at the eastern end of Stellenbosch, Jonkershoek is a pine plantation with a fantastic diversity of native plants. There are many stunning walks and rare plant species from the reserve.
Nodes
Helichrysum
Watsonia
Oxalis
Fabaceae
Pelargonium
Fabaceae
Phytolacca
Quercus suber
Orchidaceae
Pages
Taxonomy term
Gladiolus
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La. gladiolus = a small sword; referring to the sword-like shape of the leaves.
Gladiolus
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La. gladiolus = a small sword; referring to the sword-like shape of the leaves.
Harveya
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For William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), Irish-born botanist, algologist and pioneer of South African systematic botany, colonial treasurer general of the Cape Colony, keeper of the herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin, professor of botany for the Royal Dublin Society and at Trinity College, Dublin, and Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal societies. He came to the Cape in 1834, aged 23, and stayed about four years. He wrote The Genera of South African Plants (1838), Manual of British Algae (1841), Phycologia Britannica (1846–1851), Phycologia Australica (1858–1863) and was co-author, with Dr OW Sonder of Hamburg, of the first three volumes of Flora Capensis (1860–1865). He collected along the Atlantic coast of the United States and Australia and Tasmania in the South Seas.
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.
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
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; philein = to love. The plant likes a sunny position.
Hibiscus
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Gk. hibiskos = name for the ‘marsh-mallow’ used by Virgil (Palmer), possibly derived from Gk. ibis = a stork that fed on some species of mallow.
Indigofera
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Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).
Indigofera
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Indigo is derived from the La. indicus, Gk. indikos, referring to India; La. ferax = bearing. Indigo is blue dye (cf I. tinctoria).