Orange Grove Farm
A working farm run as both a vineyard and a five star guest lodge. Abutting the mountain in the Nuy valley, it has a number of interesting routes going through both fynbos and renosterveld. A large portion of the farm burnt in 2016 leading to a plethora of post-burn flowers in spring 2017.
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Pelargonium
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Moraea tripetala
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Ixia
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Taxonomy term
Conophytum
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Gk. konos = cone; phytum = plant; alluding to the inverted cone shape of the plant.
Cotula
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Probably Gk. kotule = a little cup or hollow-shaped receptacle; referring to the shape of the involucre or of the flower head. Another source says ‘or the concave base of the stem clasping leaves’.
Cotyledon
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Gk. kotyledon = seed leaf, from kotyle = cup, bowl; referring to the bowl- or spoon-shape of the broad seed leaves.
Crassula
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La. crassus = thick; -ula = diminutive; referring to the fleshy succulent leaves.
CUCURBITACEAE
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Cucurbita, Latin name for a gourd.
Cyphia
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Gk. kyphos = bent; referring to the shape of the style and stigma.
Diascia
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Gk. di- = two; askion = wineskin, bladder, belly; referring to the two lateral corolla pouches.
Dimorphotheca
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Gk. di- = two; morphe = form; theke =a fruit (a case or container); referring to the two different forms of cypselae (fruit) produced by the ray and disk flowers: those of the ray flowers wingless, three-cornered; those of the disk flattened and two-winged.
Drimia
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Gk. drimys = acrid, pungent; referring to the sap which is considered irritating or even toxic in many species.
Eriospermum
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Gk. erion = wool; sperma = seed. The seed is covered with white hairs.
Eriospermum capense
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From the Cape Province of South Africa, previously known as the Cape Colony. In the early days of exploration this epithet was frequently applied to anywhere in South or even Southern Africa.
Eucomis
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Gk. eukomes = beautifully-haired, from eu- = well; kome = hair of the head; referring to the crown of leaves atop the inflorescence.
Euryops
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Gk. eurys = large or broad; ops = eye or face; referring to the large showy capitula or flower head.
Felicia
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Origin uncertain. La. felix = happy, cheerful, though in the neuter plural form felicia = happy things; possibly a reference to the bright flowers. Other sources vaguely refer to a mysterious German official in Regensburg called Felix who died in 1846 but speculatively and more probably for the Italian Fortunato Bartolomeo de Felice (1723–1789), an Italian scholar established in Yverdon who led the European team that wrote the Yverdon Encyclopedia, published between 1770 and 1780 in 58 quarto volumes. This superseded the Parisian Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert published between 1751 and 1772.
Freesia
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For Friedrich Heinrich Theodor Freese (Vries) (1795–1876), a German physician and botanist from Kiel who learned much about South African plants from his contemporary Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795–1868), and who, like his teacher, studied South African plants. This beautiful plant Freese discovered was named after him by the German botanist Klatt in 1866.