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Scolopia Mundii
''Scolopia mundii'', the mountain saffron, red pear or klipdoring, is a South African tree in the family Salicaceae. It has dark shiny foliage and bright yellow/orange berries. It is a very adaptable tree and occurs sporadically throughout South Africa, from Cape Town northwards as far as Limpopo Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. It is named after the Limpopo River, which forms the province's western and northern borders. The capital and largest city in the province is Polokwane, while the provincial legislature is .... The specific name commemorates Johannes Ludwig Leopold Mund, a German natural history collector who was active in the Cape until 1831. References mundii Trees of South Africa Flora of South Africa Ornamental trees {{Salicaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salicaceae
The Salicaceae is the willow family of flowering plants. The traditional family (Salicaceae ''sensu stricto'') included the willows, poplar, aspen, and cottonwoods. Genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) have greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 56 genera and about 1220 species, including the Scyphostegiaceae and many of the former Flacourtiaceae. In the Cronquist system, the Salicaceae were assigned to their own order, Salicales, and contained three genera (''willow, Salix'', ''Populus'', and ''Chosenia''). Recognized to be closely related to the Violaceae and Passifloraceae, the family is placed by the APG in the order Malpighiales. Under the new circumscription, all members of the family are trees or shrubs that have Simple leaf, simple leaves with Phyllotaxis, alternate arrangement and temperate members are usually deciduous. Most members have serrate or dentate leaf margins, and those that have such toothed margins all e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scolopia Mundii - Indigenous Red Pear Tree - Cape Town 4
''Scolopia'' is an Old World genus of plants in the family Salicaceae. Species include: * ''Scolopia braunii'' (Klotzsch) & Sleumer - an Australian rainforest tree *''Scolopia buxifolia'' Gagnep. *''Scolopia chinensis'' (Lour.) Clos *''Scolopia crassipes'' Clos. *''Scolopia crenata'' (Wight & Arn.) Clos *''Scolopia erythrocarpa'' H. Perrier *''Scolopia lucida'' Wall. ex Kurz *''Scolopia mundii'' (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Warb. - a South African Afromontane forest tree *''Scolopia oldhamii'' Hance *''Scolopia oreophila'' Killick *''Scolopia pusilla'' (Gaertn.) Willd. *''Scolopia rhinanthera'' *''Scolopia saeva'' (Hance) Hance *''Scolopia schreberi'' J.F.Gmel. *''Scolopia steenisiana'' Sleumer *''Scolopia zeyheri'' (Nees) Szyszyl. The caterpillars of the rustic (''Cupha erymanthis''), a brush-footed butterfly The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest (after Johannesburg). Colloquially named the ''Mother City'', it is the largest city of the Western Cape province, and is managed by the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The other two capitals are Pretoria, the executive capital, located in Gauteng, where the Presidency is based, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital in the Free State, where the Supreme Court of Appeal is located. Cape Town is ranked as a Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. The city is known for its harbour, for its natural setting in the Cape Floristic Region, and for landmarks such as Table Mountain and Cape Point. Cape Town is home to 66% of the Western Cape's population. In 2014, Cape Town was named the best place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa. It is named after the Limpopo River, which forms the province's western and northern borders. The capital and largest city in the province is Polokwane, while the provincial legislature is situated in Lebowakgomo. The province is made up of 3 former homelands of Lebowa, Gazankulu and Venda and the former parts of the Transvaal province. The Limpopo province was established as one of the new nine provinces after South Africa's first democratic election on the 27th of April 1994. The province's name was first "Northern Transvaal", later changed to "Northern Province" on the 28th of June 1995, together with two other provinces. The name was later changed again in 2002 to the Limpopo province. Limpopo is made up of 3 main ethnic groups namely; Pedi people, Tsonga and Venda people. Traditional leaders and chiefs still form a strong backbone of the province's political landscape. Established in terms of the Limpopo House of Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mund And Maire
Johannes Ludwig Leopold Mund (1791-1831) and Louis Maire (floruit, fl. 1815-1833) were natural history collectors who worked in the Cape Colony under the sponsorship of the Berlin Museum of Natural History. Museum specimens they collected were always labeled under the names, "Mund & Maire". Both were born in Berlin of French parents. Mund, a qualified apothecary, and Maire, a qualified physician, had both served in the Prussian Army during the Napoleonic Wars with Karl Heinrich Bergius. Mund served as field apothecary and was released from military service by the intervention of Minister Altenstein. Maire had later been employed as a gardener in Berlin. They were sent to South Africa by the Museum at the behest of the Prussian government and travelled via England, where they met Sir Joseph Banks at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew. They arrived at the Cape in October 1816 and re-established contact with Bergius, who introduced them to interesting collecting localities. Mund had a pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scolopia
''Scolopia'' is an Old World genus of plants in the family Salicaceae. Species include: * ''Scolopia braunii'' ( Klotzsch) & Sleumer - an Australian rainforest tree *''Scolopia buxifolia'' Gagnep. *''Scolopia chinensis'' (Lour.) Clos *''Scolopia crassipes'' Clos. *''Scolopia crenata'' (Wight & Arn.) Clos *''Scolopia erythrocarpa'' H. Perrier *''Scolopia lucida'' Wall. ex Kurz *''Scolopia mundii'' (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Warb. - a South African Afromontane forest tree *''Scolopia oldhamii'' Hance *''Scolopia oreophila'' Killick *''Scolopia pusilla'' (Gaertn.) Willd. *''Scolopia rhinanthera'' *''Scolopia saeva'' (Hance) Hance *''Scolopia schreberi'' J.F.Gmel. *''Scolopia steenisiana'' Sleumer *''Scolopia zeyheri'' (Nees) Szyszyl. The caterpillars of the rustic (''Cupha erymanthis''), a brush-footed butterfly The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trees Of South Africa
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height. In wider definitions, the taller palms, tree ferns, bananas, and bamboos are also trees. Trees are not a taxonomic group but include a variety of plant species that have independently evolved a trunk and branches as a way to tower above other plants to compete for sunlight. The majority of tree species are angiosperms or hardwoods; of the rest, many are gymnosperms or softwoods. Trees tend to be long-lived, some reaching several thousand years old. Trees have been in existence for 370 million years. It is estimated that there are some three trillion mature trees in the world. A tree typically has many secondary branches supported clear of the ground by the trunk. This trunk typically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Of South Africa
The wildlife of South Africa consists of the flora and fauna of this country in southern Africa. The country has a range of different habitat types and an ecologically rich and diverse wildlife, vascular plants being particularly abundant, many of them endemic to the country. There are few forested areas, much savanna grassland, semi-arid Karoo vegetation and the fynbos of the Cape Floristic Region. Famed for its national parks and big game, 297 species of mammal have been recorded in South Africa, as well as 849 species of bird and over 20,000 species of vascular plants. Geography South Africa is located in subtropical southern Africa, lying between 22°S and 35°S. It is bordered by Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe to the north, by Mozambique and Eswatini (Swaziland) to the northeast, by the Indian Ocean to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the coastline extending for more than . The interior of the country consists of a large, nearly flat, plateau with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
