Maanskyn & Rose Farm and Guest Houses
This farm is situated at the head of the Voorbaat Valley. Run by Rhys and Di Lloyd as a guest lodge, it has a quiet and simple charm that includes horses, organic veggie gardening. Previously known as Draai Om (turn around) because it is at the end of valley, it has a number of vegetation types that are being preserved. In the lowlands there is the succulent karoo while the Klein Swartberg mountains above the farm have mountain fynbos. Two clear-water dams present gentle swimming opportunities while the two valleys (kloofs) descending from the mountains may also be explored for swimming points.
Nodes
Carpobrotus
Freylinia
Eriospermum
Senecio
Gasteria
AIZOACEAE
Crassula orbicularis
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Taxonomy term
Chlorophytum
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Gk. chloros = yellow-green; phyton = a plant; referring to the green colour of the leaves and the flowers.
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.
Clutia
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For Theodorus Augerius Clutius (Outgers Cluyt) (1577–1636), Dutch botanist, horticulturalist, beekeeper and pharmacist, eldest son of Dirck Outgaertszoon Cluyt (Clutius) (1550–1598) from Delft, an apothecary, curator of the Leiden botanical garden, and an authority on medicinal herbs. Outgers studied and worked with his father in the garden. After his father died he hoped to become his successor, but failed in the attempt. Thereafter, he studied at the University of Montpellier for several years. Between 1602–1608 he travelled to France, Germany and Spain, and also, later, on three occasions to the desert of Barbary in North Africa to increase his knowledge and collect plants for the Leiden botanical garden. Leiden University rewarded him handsomely for his efforts. On his return to the Netherlands (1618), he worked as a physician and during that time worked hard to promote the Amsterdam Hortus Botanicus where he obtained a job against strong opposition. Herman Boerhaave honoured Outgers (and his father) by naming Clutia pulchella after them.
Corymbium
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Gk. korymbos = a cluster; referring to a flat-topped or rounded clustered inflorescence with the lower petals longer that the upper (i.e. a corymb).
Cotyledon
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Gk. kotyledon = seed leaf, from kotyle = cup, bowl; referring to the bowl- or spoon-shape of the broad seed leaves.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
Crassula muscosa
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From the Latin ‘muscosa’ / ‘muscosus’ meaning ‘mossy’
Crotalaria
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Gk. krotalos = rattle. The dry seed pods rattle when shaken.
Dianthus
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Gk. dios = godlike, divine; anthos = flower; probably referring to the scent.
Disa
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Origin obscure. Börge Pettison believes the plant was named after Queen Disa who occurs in a Swedish legendary saga. The author, Peter Jonas Bergius, was a Swedish botanist.
Drimia
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Gk. drimys = acrid, pungent; referring to the sap which is considered irritating or even toxic in many species.
Drosera
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Gk. droseros = dewy; alluding to the dewy glistening leaf-glands.
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 cerinthoides
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From the Greek ‘cerinth’ / ‘kerinthe’ meaning ‘honeywort’; and the Greek ‘oides’ / ‘oides’ meaning ‘in the form of’.