Orange Grove Farm
A working farm run as both a vineyard and a five star guest lodge. Abutting the mountain in the Nuy valley, it has a number of interesting routes going through both fynbos and renosterveld. A large portion of the farm burnt in 2016 leading to a plethora of post-burn flowers in spring 2017.
Nodes
Pelargonium
Senecio
Thamnochortus
Freylinia lanceolata
Hermannia salviifolia
Commelina africana
Nemesia
Hesperantha
Pelargonium
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Taxonomy term
Adromischus
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Gk. adros = thick; miskhos = a stalk; referring to the thick stalks of the species.
Aizoon
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Gk. aei = ever, always; zoos, zoon = alive, a living thing; alluding to the ability of the plant to live under difficult circumstances.
Albuca
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La. albus = white or albicans = becoming white; referring to the colouring of some Albuca flowers.
Androcymbium
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Gk. andro- = male (in botanical language, stamen); kymbium = cup or saucer (La. cymba). The petal limbs enfold the stamens. Common names ‘men-in-a-boat’, ‘cup-and-saucer’.
APIACEAE
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Named after the genus Apium including Apium graveolens - celery.
Arctotis
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Gk. arkto- = brown bear; -otis = an ear. The bear-like ears have been linked, variously, to the earlike pappus scales, outer involucral bracts or the shaggy fruit.
Aspalathus
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From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Astroloba
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From the Greek astro-, stellate; lobos, lobe.
Astroloba Uitewaal.
Genus of caulescent succulent perennials indigenous to the Karoo regions of South Africa. Plants offset from the base to form clusters. Leaves hard succulent, sharp, keeled, mucronate and pentastichous. Flowers tubular. Six perianth lobes in relatively actinomorphic arrangement.
Babiana
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Unusual among South African plants in the name being derived from the vernacular Dutch, "baviaantjie", Afrikaans "bobbejaantjie" or its Cape corruption "babiaantjie". The baboon, bobbejaan, is partial to the corms.
Bulbine
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La. bulbus = an onion or bulb. A misnomer in that the plants do not have a bulbous base.
Bulbine mesembryanthemoides
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From the Greek ‘anthe’ / ‘anthos’ meaning ‘flower ’; and the Greek ‘oides’ / ‘oides’ meaning ‘in the form of’.
Chlorophytum
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Gk. chloros = yellow-green; phyton = a plant; referring to the green colour of the leaves and the flowers.
Cineraria
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La. cinereus = ash-coloured. Most species of this genus have leaves with an ashen-grey haircovering on at least the lower surface.
Cleretum
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Gk. kleros = fate, chance, lot (as in ‘drawing lots’); -etum = the place dominated by a given plant. In early Sparta public land was apportioned to citizens by drawing lots, with the best land given to those who, by chance, drew a winning lot.
Commelina africana
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