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
Asteraceae
Pelargonium
Widdringtonia
Clutia
Blattidae
Alectra
Gnidia
Drosera
ORCHIDACEAE
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Taxonomy term
Syncarpha
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Gk. syn- = together; karphos = a dry stalk, scale; possibly referring to the dry bracts that are united into a cone-like structure.
Tritoniopsis
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Tritonia (q.v.); Gk. -iopsis = resembling.
Ursinia
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Named in honour of Johann Ursinus of Regensburg, the author of Arboretum Biblicum. Sphenogyne R.Br. is not considered separable.
Watsonia
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For William Watson (1715–1787), English physician, apothecary, botanist and naturalist. He introduced the work of Linnaeus and his botanical classification system to Britain. He was the first scientist to observe the flash of light from the discharge of a Leyden jar and to show that electricity could pass through a vacuum and that it had a positive and negative charge; he coined the word ‘circuit’. His articles, entitled Experiments on the Nature of Electricity, appeared from 1745 onward in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, of which he became a member (1741) and vice president (1772). Both he and Benjamin Franklin discovered some of the same characteristics of electricity at the same time, but independently. The two men became friends.
Widdringtonia
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For Samuel Edward Widdrington (formerly Cook) (1787–1856), a Royal Navy captain, author of two books on Spain: Sketches in Spain (1834) and Spain and the Spaniards (1844). While living in Spain, he took a great interest in Spain’s coniferous forests – hence a genus being named after him – which he scientifically detailed in his 1844 book. In 1840, he took the name Widdrington, when his mother became heiress of some estates of that family. He served as the high sheriff of Northumberland in 1854. He was an honorary knight commander of the Military Order of the Tower and Sword, an honour bestowed upon him by Dom João VI of Portugal, formerly prince regent. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (1842) as well as the Royal Geographical Society.
Wimmerella
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For Elfrieda Franz Wimmer (1881–1961), an Austrian botanist, naturalist, teacher and Roman Catholic priest. From his early youth, he had an interest in insects and plants. He studied in Vienna and Graz, and taught at St George’s College in Constantinople. In 1907, he was ordained and became chaplain in Vienna. Later, he became director of the Elisabeth Hospital Sisters of Mercy in Vienna until his retirement in 1958. In his spare time, he travelled to Asia Minor. From 1943–1953, Wimmer contributed to the book Das Pflanzenreich (The Empire of Plants) by Adolf Engler, in particular for the Campanulaceae-Lobelioideae. In 1944, he was appointed correspondent of the Natural History Museum in Vienna.