Darling Wildflower Area
This is the broad area that encompasses the deep sands and renosterveld of Darling and the surrounds.
Nodes
Babiana tubulosa
Lobostemon glaucophyllus
Caesia sabulosa
Asparagus
Crassula pellucida
Lampranthus reptans
Arctotis hirsuta
Prismatocarpus sessilis
Galenia africana
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Taxonomy term
Asclepias crispa
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From the Latin ‘crispa’ / ‘crispus’ meaning ‘curled’ or 'finely wavy'
Aspalathus
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From aspalathos, a scented bush that grew in Greece, now in the related genus Astragalus.
Aspalathus bracteata
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From the Latin bracteatus = 'gilt', 'gilded', 'covered with a thin veneer of gold', 'shining like gold', but may also refer to having bracts.
Aspalathus divaricata
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From Latin divaricatus = "spreading"
Aspalathus hispida
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From the Latin hispidus = ‘rough’ or 'with bristles'
Aspalathus quinquefolia
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From the Latin ‘quinque’ / ‘quinque’ meaning ‘five’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
Aspalathus spinescens
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From the Latin spina = 'spine', 'thorn', 'prick' or 'prickle' and -escens = 'becoming like'; i.e. the thorns are incompletely formed
Aspalathus spinosa
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From the Latin spinosus = ‘thorny’
Asparagus
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From the Greek aspharagos, the name given to the edible Asparagus. A wide-spread genus which is greatly in need of revision. The root-system is an important character in the grouping, but owing to the inadequacy of the existing descriptions and the imperfection of the type specimens, correct identification is often very difficult. The flowering seasons seem to depend very largely on habitat. Some of the spiny species are called Wag-’n-bietjie.
Asparagus aethiopicus
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From the Latin aethiopicus = 'Ethiopia'; pertaining frequently to Africa in general, not just Ethiopia.
Asparagus capensis
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From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. -ensis is a Latin adjectival suffix meaning “pertaining to or “originating in,” Thus these organisms were first discovered in the Cape. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South Africa or even Southern Africa
Asparagus declinatus
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From the Latin declino meaning 'bent aside'or 'turned away'.
Asparagus retrofractus
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from Latin retro = backwards and fractus = twisted; The stems zig-zag