Tokai Forest Reserve
This is a remnant lowland fragment in Cape Town with some rare species relegated mainly to this site.
Nodes
Coprosma repens
Struthiola striata
Diastella proteoides
Trachyandra brachypoda
Lebeckia plukenetiana
Oenothera parviflora
Erica verticillata
Fraxinus
Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron
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Taxonomy term
Aspalathus
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From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Bulbine
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La. bulbus = an onion or bulb. A misnomer in that the plants do not have a bulbous base.
Cliffortia ferruginea
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From the Latin ferrugineus meaning ‘relating to iron’
Coprosma repens
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From the Latin repens = ‘creeping’
Cyrtomium falcatum
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From the Latin falcatus = "falcate / sickle-shaped". Typically referring to the leaves or the fruit.
Erica verticillata
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From the Latin verticillatus = 'having whorls', referring to the arrangement of the leaves upon the stem that radiate from a single point
Fraxinus
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La. fraxinus = spear; referring to the hardwood ash tree. The wood was also extensively used for making bows.
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.
Leucadendron macowanii
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Commemorating the botanist Peter MacOwan (1830-1909)
Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron
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From the Greek hypo = ‘under’, phyllos = ‘leaf’, konos = 'cone', karpos = 'fruit' and dendron = a 'tree' or 'bush'; i.e. 'the tree with coned fruit' and 'the bush with low-lying leaves and fruit'
Lobelia
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For Mathias de L’Obel (Lobel, Lobelius) (1538–1616), Flemish botanist, traveller, plant collector. He studied medicine in Leuven and Montpellier and practised medicine from 1571–1581 in Antwerp and Delft, where he was physician to William, Prince of Orange. In 1584 he left the Netherlands for England to escape the civil war and never returned. He became physician to King James I of England and also the king’s botanist. His major work, written in collaboration with Pierre Pena, was Stirpium Adversaria Nova (1571), which describes some 1 500 species in the vicinity of Montpellier, also of Tyrol, Switzerland and the Netherlands. A second volume, Plantarum Historia Stirpium, was published in 1576 with more than 2 000 illustrations, and a further work, Icones Stirpium, seu, Plantarum Tam Exoticarum in 1591.