Meiringspoort
The towering sandstone cliff walls and breathtaking rock formations of Meiringspoort lie on the N12 between Beaufort West and Oudtshoorn. The poort follows the natural gorge hewn by the Groot Rivier (big river) through the Swartberg range connecting, on either end, the towns of Klaarstroom and De Rust, or the Groot and Klein Karoo respectively. It is famous for its waterfall
Nodes
Manulea chrysantha
Nemesia deflexa
Diospyros
Diospyros
Sceletium
Sutera
Hermannia odorata
Hermannia salviifolia
Boophone
Pages
Taxonomy term
Cysticapnos
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Gk. kystis = bladder; kapnos = smoke, smoky; referring to the distinctively inflated, bladder-like fruit, dangling – like lanterns. The fruit in bud can look smoky pink-grey.
Diascia
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Gk. di- = two; askion = wineskin, bladder, belly; referring to the two lateral corolla pouches.
Dimorphotheca
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Gk. di- = two; morphe = form; theke =a fruit (a case or container); referring to the two different forms of cypselae (fruit) produced by the ray and disk flowers: those of the ray flowers wingless, three-cornered; those of the disk flattened and two-winged.
Dioscorea
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For Pedanius Dioscorides, (c 40–90) Greek physician, whose Materia Medica, circulated in Latin, Greek, and Arabic, was the leading work of its kind throughout the Middle Ages and remains a major source of historical information relating to medicines used by the Greeks, Romans and other cultures.
Diospyros
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Gk. dios = divine; pyros = literally, a ‘grain of wheat’ but in this instance fruit. The fruits are ‘divine’ – edible and very tasty. This name was originally applied to the Caucasion persimmon, Diospyros lotus.
Diospyros
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Gk. dios = divine; pyros = literally, a ‘grain of wheat’ but in this instance fruit. The fruits are ‘divine’ – edible and very tasty. This name was originally applied to the Caucasion persimmon, Diospyros lotus.
Dorotheanthus
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For Dorothea Schwantes (1849–?) (née Meyer), wife of farmer Jürgen Meyer and mother of German professor and botanist Gustav Martin Heinrich Gustav Schwantes, who published the genus in her honour in 1927.
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 coccinea
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From the Latin coccineus = ‘scarlet’
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.
Euphorbia heptagona
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From the Latin hepta meaning 'seven' and gona meaning 'angled'
Euryops
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Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.
Felicia
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Origin uncertain. La. felix = happy, cheerful, though in the neuter plural form felicia = happy things; possibly a reference to the bright flowers. Other sources vaguely refer to a mysterious German official in Regensburg called Felix who died in 1846 but speculatively and more probably for the Italian Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723–1789), an Italian scholar established in Yverdon who led the European team that wrote the Yverdon Encyclopedia, published between 1770 and 1780 in 58 quarto volumes. This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.
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).