
Tiffindell Ski Resort
Situated on the border of South Africa and the Kingdom of Lesotho on the highest mountain range in South Africa, Tiffindell is home to many special plant species.
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Eumorphia prostrata

Ursinia montana

Berkheya purpurea

Euphorbia

Wurmbea elatior

Dierama robustum

Malachite Sunbird

Senecio macrospermus

Valeriana capensis
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Taxonomy term
Aloe
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Gk. aloē (from earlier Semitic word alloeh) = bitter. The liquid or dried juice found in the leaves is bitter.
Androcymbium striatum
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From the Latin ‘striatum’ / ‘striatus’ meaning ‘striped’
Asteraceae
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Named after the genus Aster. The name Aster comes from the Ancient Greek word ἀστήρ (astḗr), meaning "star", referring to the shape of the flower head.
Athrixia
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Name possibly from the Greek ather, an awn, alluding to the fine awnlike tips of the involucral bracts.
Corycium
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Gk. korys = helmet or helmet-like structure; korykion, diminutive of korykos = leather bag. The uppermost three tepals of this coarse, globose flower converge and touch, but not fused together into a hood (shape).
Crassula setulosa
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From the Latin setulosus = 'slightly bristly'
Delosperma
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Gk. delos = visible, open, transparent; sperma = seed; referring to seeds that are easily visible as they are in an unenclosed chamber of the capsule which has no covering membrane.
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).
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 clavarioides
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From the Latin clava meaning 'club' and -iioides meaning 'like'.
FABACEAE
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Faba, Latin, a bean.
Gazania krebsiana
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From the German ‘krebsiana’ / ‘Krebs’ meaning ‘commemorating a botanist of this name’
Gladiolus longicollis
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From the Latin longus = 'long' and collis = 'neck' or 'collar'
Helichrysum
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Gk. (h)elios = sun; chrysos = gold; referring to the bright yellow flowerheads of many of the flowers of species in this genus.
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