Kenilworth Racecourse
An actively managed private nature reserve owned by Kenilworth Racing with a management agreement between City of Cape Town Nature Conservation and CapeNature Conservation. It hosts over 300 plant species, 34 of which are threatened & one of which is only found within the reserve. The main threats to biodiversity are incidental mismanagement and aliens including kikuyu grass.
Nodes
Leucadendron levisanus
Muraltia ericoides
Aspalathus hispida
Leptospermum scoparium
Plecostachys serpyllifolia
Agathosma imbricata
Erica mammosa
Typha capensis
Orphium frutescens
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Taxonomy term
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.
Conyza
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Gk. konyza = a fleabane. The plant was believed to drive away gnats (William Henry Harvey, Flora Capensis). Paxton’s Botanical Dictionary derives the name from konis = dust; the powdered leaves of some species drives away flies, etc., hence the trivial English name ‘flea-bane.’
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Elegia
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Gk. elegeia, elegia = song of lamentation; possibly referring to the sound restios make while they are moving in the breeze.
Elegia
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Gk. elegeia, elegia = song of lamentation; possibly referring to the sound restios make while they are moving in the breeze.
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).
Erica imbricata
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From the Latin imbricatus meaning ‘overlapping / tiled’
Frankenia
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For Johan Frankenius (Frank, Franke) (1590–1661), professor of anatomy, medicine and botany at Uppsala, Sweden, and the first writer on Swedish plants, author of Speculum botanicum, and a colleague of Linnaeus. In 1638 he made the first inventory of Swedish plants.
Gnaphalium
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Gk. gnaphalion = a flock of wool, downy-like. The plant is hairy all over, like a plant whose soft white leaves are used as cushion stuffing.
Gnaphalium
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Gk. gnaphalion = a flock of wool, downy-like. The plant is hairy all over, like a plant whose soft white leaves are used as cushion stuffing.
Gnidia
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Derivation uncertain. Linnaeus only states ‘habitat in Aethiopa’, Africa, where it is widely distributed. Possibly Gnidia was named after a Greek city, Knidos, where a kind of laurel grew, or Cnidus in Caria (modern Turkey) (Hugh Glen). Another possibility is that it could be a Greek word for Daphne or laurel; in Greek mythology, Daphne was a pretty nymph who was turned into a laurel bush (WPU Jackson). It might also have been named after Knossos in Crete (spelled Knidiossos in one version), with the G being substituted for K.
Gnidia
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Derivation uncertain. Linnaeus only states ‘habitat in Aethiopa’, Africa, where it is widely distributed. Possibly Gnidia was named after a Greek city, Knidos, where a kind of laurel grew, or Cnidus in Caria (modern Turkey) (Hugh Glen). Another possibility is that it could be a Greek word for Daphne or laurel; in Greek mythology, Daphne was a pretty nymph who was turned into a laurel bush (WPU Jackson). It might also have been named after Knossos in Crete (spelled Knidiossos in one version), with the G being substituted for K.