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.
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Hemimeris
Nerine
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Cissampelos capensis
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Taxonomy term
Ophioglossum
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Gk. ophis = serpent, snake(-like); glossa = tongue; referring to the snake-like tongue, the bifid apex above the fertile spike. Commonly called adder’s tongue, the folk name in many countries.
ORCHIDACEAE
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From the Greek orchis, testis; referring to the resemblance to the twin pseudo-bulbs of some genera.
Ornithoglossum
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Gk. ornithos = bird; glossa = tongue; referring to the narrow tepals.
Otholobium
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From the Greek otheo, to burst forth; lobos. lobe or pod. The fruit of . caff rum seems to be "pushing out of the calyx" (author).
Othonna
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Name derived from the Greek othone, a linen cloth or napkin, in allusion to the downy covering of some of the earlier known species. Doria Less. is not regarded as separable.
Oxalis
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From the Greek oxys = sharp, sour or acid and (h)als = salt. The plant is frequently consumed for its sour taste caused by the oxalic acid, particularly the flowering stalks of O. pes-caprae. In large quantities the oxalic acid inhibits digestion and in stock leads to the condition 'dikpens' or bloated belly.
Passerina
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Believed to be from the Latin passer, a sparrow; -ina, relating to; referring to the black seeds resembling a sparrow?s beak.
Pelargonium
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Gk. pelargos = a stork; referring to the beak of the fruit which resembles a stork’s bill (cf Geranium, Erodium).
Polygala
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Gk. poly = much; gala = milk; so-called from the belief that cattle grazing in fields with this plant produced more milk. (San Marcos growers in the United States claim that Polygala virgata ‘Portola’ has this property but the authors could find no scientific evidence).
Rhus
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Gk. rhous, from rhodos = red (the word can be traced back for centuries); referring to the fruits or autumn leaves of some species.
Senecio
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La. senex = an old man. The white, hairy pappus of the seeds is reminiscent of an old man’s beard.
Spiloxene
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Gk. spilos = a spot, stain; xenos = host or stranger; referring to the spotted base of the tepals in some species.
Tetragonia
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Gk. tetra = four; gonia = an angle; referring to the angular shape of the fruit.
Thamnochortus
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Gk. thamnos = a shrub; khortus = green herbage; referring to the overall colour of this plant. Peter Jonas Bergius states ‘Khortus = a grass, alluding to the hard shrubby habit and natural affinity of the plant’ (Cyclopaedia Abraham Rees, 1819).
Trachyandra
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Gk. trachys = rough; andros = male. The thick filaments are usually hairy.