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Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
02/10/2016 - 6:20pm
Collection:
Wynberg Hill
Several pieces of land with potential for harbouring remnant vegetation. Currently mainly managed by the City of Cape Town and mowed regularly. The area is in need of management for biodiversity and rehabilitation including stimulation of dormant seeds by fire. See Wynberg Park.
Nodes
Ursinia
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
02/10/2016 - 6:18pm
Collection:
Sparaxis bulbifera
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
02/10/2016 - 6:15pm
Collection:
Euphorbia
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
02/10/2016 - 6:12pm
Collection:
Oxalis
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
02/10/2016 - 6:11pm
Collection:
Pelargonium
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
02/10/2016 - 6:11pm
Collection:
Asparagus rubicundus
Locality:
Name of observer:
David Gwynne-Evans (David)
Date observed:
02/10/2016 - 6:11pm
Collection:
Taxonomy term
G
Euphorbia
NE
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Short etymology:
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.
G
Oxalis
NE
20
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Short etymology:
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.
G
Pelargonium
NE
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Short etymology:
Gk. pelargos = a stork; referring to the beak of the fruit which resembles a stork’s bill (cf Geranium, Erodium).
G
Ursinia
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Named in honour of Johann Ursinus of Regensburg, the author of Arboretum Biblicum. Sphenogyne R.Br. is not considered separable.
G
Ursinia
NE
20
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Short etymology:
Named in honour of Johann Ursinus of Regensburg, the author of Arboretum Biblicum. Sphenogyne R.Br. is not considered separable.
