Newlands Forest
An indigenous forest, eucalyptus and pine plantation. On the east side of Table Mountain National Park.
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Psidium cattleianum
Psidium cattleianum
Psidium cattleianum
Psidium cattleianum
Psidium cattleianum
Psidium cattleianum
Psidium cattleianum
Psidium cattleianum
Psidium cattleianum
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Taxonomy term
Coprosma repens
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From the Latin repens = ‘creeping’
Cortaderia
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Spanish corta = to cut; an Argentinian name for ‘pampas grass’; referring to the sharp-edged leaves.
Cortaderia selloana
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From the Latin? ‘selloana/sellariolus’ / ‘sello/seat-like’ meaning ‘commemorating a botanist of this name?’
Cotoneaster pannosus
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From the Latin pannosus = 'with the appearance or texture of felt'
Cyperus diffusus
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From the Latin diffusus = ‘widespread’, 'spreading' or 'diffuse'
Daucus carota
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From the Greek karoton = 'carrot'
Dicksonia antarctica
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From the Latin ‘anarcticus’ / ‘southern’ meaning ‘’
Dodonaea viscosa
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From the Latin viscosus = ‘sticky’
Erigeron karvinskianus
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Named after Wilhelm Friedrich Karwinski von Karwin (1780-1855), who collected from Mexico to Venezuela
Eriobotrya japonica
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From the Latin for 'of Japan'
Eruca sativa
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From the Latin sativus = 'sown'; i.e. generally refering to crop plants
Eugenia myrtifolia
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From the Greek ‘myrt’ / ‘myrtos’ meaning ‘myrtle’; and the Latin ‘folia’ / ‘folium’ meaning ‘leaf’.
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.