Serruria Bolusii

	Serruria Bolusii ''Serruria bolusii'', the Agulhas spiderhead, is a flower-bearing shrub that belongs to the genus ''Serruria'' and forms part of the fynbos Fynbos (; meaning fine plants) is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. This area is predominantly coastal and mountainous, with a Mediterranean clim .... The plant is native to the Western Cape and is found in Elim hills and Soetanysberg. The shrub grows upright to 1.0 m tall and flowers from August to December. The plant dies after a fire but the seeds survive. Two months after flowering, the fruit falls off. The plant is unisexual. Pollination takes place through the action of insects. The plant grows in sandy soil at altitudes of 20 – 580 m. In Afrikaans it is known as . References * http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=807-17 * http://biodiversityexplorer.info/plants/proteaceae/serruria_bolusii.htm * https://www.proteaatl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Fynbos Fynbos (; meaning fine plants) is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. This area is predominantly coastal and mountainous, with a Mediterranean climate and rainy winters. The fynbos ecoregion is within the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome. In fields related to biogeography, fynbos is known for its exceptional degree of biodiversity and endemism, consisting of about 80% (8,500 fynbos) species of the Cape floral kingdom, where nearly 6,000 of them are endemic. This land continues to face severe human-caused threats, but due to the many economic uses of the fynbos, conservation efforts are being made to help restore it. Overview and history The word fynbos is often confusingly said to mean "fine bush" in Afrikaans, as "bos" means "bush". Typical fynbos foliage is ericoid rather than fine. The term, in its pre-Afrikaans, Dutch form, ''fynbosch'', was recorded by Nob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Serruria ''Serruria'', or spiderhead is a genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa. Names ''Serruria'' was named in honor of Joseph Serrurier, a professor of botany at the Utrecht University early in the eighteenth century. It is called spiderhead in English and spinnekopbos in Afrikaans, because of the silky, finely divided leaves looking like they are covered in spiders webs. Selected species Species include: ''Serruria acrocarpa'' '' Serruria adscendens'' '' Serruria aemula'' ''Serruria aitonii'' '' Serruria altiscapa'' '' Serruria balanocephala'' ''Serruria bolusii'' ''Serruria brownii'' ''Serruria candicans'' '' Serruria collina'' ''Serruria confragosa'' ''Serruria cyanoides'' ''Serruria cygnea'' ''Serruria decipiens'' ''Serruria decumbens'' ''Serruria deluvialis'' ''Serruria dodii'' ''Serruria effusa'' ''Serruria elongata'' ''Serruria fasciflora'' ''Serruria flagellifolia'' ''Serruria flava'' ''Serruri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Flora Of The Cape Provinces Flora is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora, as in the terms '' gut flora'' or '' skin flora''. Etymology The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora, the goddess of plants, flowers, and fertility in Roman mythology. The technical term "flora" is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of a community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used indiscriminately.Thurmann, J. (1849). ''Essai de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]