Towerlands Wilderness Retreat
Farm co-owned by botanist and photographer Greg Nicholson, this is a delightful venue in the Langeberg Mountains west of Garcias pass that features natural-earth houses.
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Leucospermum cuneiforme
Drosera
Adenandra
Lachnaea
Adenandra
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Hakea
Hermannia angularis
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Taxonomy term
Rafnia
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For Carl (Karl) Gottlob Rafn (1769–1808), Danish civil servant, botanist and science writer. He studied medicine and botany at the University of Copenhagen in 1788, and later veterinary science, but did not take the exams. He had a range of jobs such as an agriculture assessor and director of a distillery, but his main interests were natural history and science. He authored or co-authored a range of publications, including the Flora of Denmarks and Holstein, a book on plant physiology (1798), a paper on animal hibernation with JD Herholdt, and a book on life-saving measures for drowning persons. He became a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in 1798.
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.
Syncarpha
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Gk. syn- = together; karphos = a dry stalk, scale; possibly referring to the dry bracts that are united into a cone-like structure.
Watsonia
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For William Watson (1715–1787), English physician, apothecary, botanist and naturalist. He introduced the work of Linnaeus and his botanical classification system to Britain. He was the first scientist to observe the flash of light from the discharge of a Leyden jar and to show that electricity could pass through a vacuum and that it had a positive and negative charge; he coined the word ‘circuit’. His articles, entitled Experiments on the Nature of Electricity, appeared from 1745 onward in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, of which he became a member (1741) and vice president (1772). Both he and Benjamin Franklin discovered some of the same characteristics of electricity at the same time, but independently. The two men became friends.
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