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
Schizobasis
Polygala
Asparagus
Euphorbia
Watsonia
Wimmerella
Pelargonium hispidum
Cerastium
Drimia
Pages
Taxonomy term
Eriospermum
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Gk. erion = wool; sperma = seed. The seed is covered with white hairs.
Euphorbia
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Gk. eu- = well; phorbe = pasture or fodder; probably after Euphorbus, Greek physician to Juba II, King of Mauretania. Juba was educated in Rome and married the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra. He was apparently interested in botany and had written about an African cactus-like plant from the slopes of Mount Atlas, which he had found or knew about, which was used as a powerful laxative. That plant may have been Euphorbia resinifera, and like all Euphorbias had a latexy exudate (milky emulsion from certain plants). Euphorbus had a brother named Antonius Musa who was the physician to Augustus Caesar in Rome. When Juba heard that Caesar had honoured his physician with a statue, he decided to honour his own physician by naming the plant he had written about after him.
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.
Ficinia
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For Heinrich David August Ficinus (1782–1857), German physician, naturalist, botanist, professor of physics and chemistry at the medical-surgical academy in Dresden (1814), then was professor of natural history (1817). From 1822 onwards he worked in his father’s pharmacy but also taught chemistry, technology and physics at the Technical Training Institute in Dresden (1828–1833). He wrote several literary works, textbooks and papers in the fields of botany, optics and mineral chemistry. They include Flora of the Area around Dresden (1807), Optics or Attempts to Follow the Right Outline of the Whole Theory of Light (1828), Foundations of Medical Physics, Foundations of Medicinal Chemistry (1815), and General Natural History (1839) (titles translated from German).
Freylinia
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For Pietro Lorenzo, count of Freylino (Freilino) (1754–1820), Italian botanist and owner of a famous garden at Buttigliera d’Asti near Marengo in Italy in the early 19th century. He compiled a catalogue of the plants growing in his garden.
Gasteria
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Gk. gaster = abdomen, belly. The plant is named for its stomach-shaped flowers with swollen stems or the swollen base of the perianth tube (WPU Jackson) or the spikelets (Davesgarden.com).
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.
Haworthia
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For Adrian Hardy Haworth (1768–1833), English botanist, entomologist, carcinologist and an authority on succulents and lepidoptera. He did pioneering work in North America, Canada and Mexico focusing on cacti, and published Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum (1819) with subsequent supplements. In England he collected and studied butterflies, publishing Lepidoptera Britannica (1803–1828). During his life he amassed a collection of over 40 000 insects. He was a Fellow of the Linnaean and Royal Horticultural societies and a friend of Sir Joseph Banks. In 1833 he lent support to the founding of what was to become the Royal Entomological Society of London.
Heliophila
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; philein = to love. The plant likes a sunny position.
Hermannia salviifolia
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From the Latin ‘salvii’ / ‘salvia’ meaning ‘sage’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Hippia
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Derivation unknown. Suggestions include after ‘Hippia’, a title given to the Roman goddess Minerva or possibly after Hippias of Elis, a Greek philosopher or Gk. hippos = horse.
Leucadendron spissifolium
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From the Latin ‘spissi’ / ‘spissus’ meaning ‘thick or dense’; and the Latin ‘folium’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Lobelia
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For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.
Lobostemon
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Gk. lobos = lobe; stemon = thread, stamen; referring to the filaments being opposite the corolla lobes.