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Harveya (plant)
''Harveya'' is a genus of parasitic plants in the family Orobanchaceae. The approximately 40 species included are native to Africa and the Mascarene Islands The Mascarene Islands (, ) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of the islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion. Thei .... In South Africa they are commonly known as '', because early settlers used the flowers to make ink, and this is the source of the English common-names for the genus of ink flower or ink plant. It was named after William Henry Harvey, thus achieving one of his childhood ambitions. Discussing his vocational prospects as a youth, Harvey wrote that he was "neither fit to be a doctor nor a lawyer, lacking courage for the one, and face for the other, and application for both.... All I have a taste for is natural history, and that might possibly lead in days to come to a genus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harveya (plant)
''Harveya'' is a genus of parasitic plants in the family Orobanchaceae. The approximately 40 species included are native to Africa and the Mascarene Islands The Mascarene Islands (, ) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of the islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion. Thei .... In South Africa they are commonly known as '', because early settlers used the flowers to make ink, and this is the source of the English common-names for the genus of ink flower or ink plant. It was named after William Henry Harvey, thus achieving one of his childhood ambitions. Discussing his vocational prospects as a youth, Harvey wrote that he was "neither fit to be a doctor nor a lawyer, lacking courage for the one, and face for the other, and application for both.... All I have a taste for is natural history, and that might possibly lead in days to come to a genus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harveya Purpurea
''Harveya purpurea'' is an annual herb with large, showy flowers and scale-like leaves, parasitic on the roots of shrubs and trees, endemic to South Africa in the Eastern and Western Cape. It occurs from the Cederberg to the Cape Peninsula, and along the coastal belt to Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, mainly among fynbos, on stony slopes and sandy flats.'Parasitic flowering plants' - Henning Heide-Jørgensen ''Harveya'' species are native to Africa, Madagascar, and Yemen. This species is holoparasitic, that is, entirely nonphotosynthetic, with a preference for members of the Campanulaceae such as ''Roella ''Roella'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae, native to southern South Africa. They are small shrubs or perennial herbs and can be erect through prostrate in habit. Species Currently accepted species include: *'' Roella ...'' and '' Wahlenbergia''. The disabling of the photosynthesis gene has happened independently several times in Scrophularial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |