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IN PRAISE OF PROTEAS: FLOWERS OF THE GODS
Interesting character, Proteus. Son of Neptune – Greek God of the sea - his speciality was shape-changing, morphing into any form he chose – a leopard, a tree, some water. It’s a neat trick and one that inspired Carl Linnaeus – father of taxonomy – to name a family of...
NATURE’S SUPERMARKET: TRADITIONAL USES OF FYNBOS
Ever got home after doing the shopping and discovered – with a groan and the slap of your forehead – that you’ve forgotten to buy sugar? Or an intestinal worm purgative? Don’t worry, it happens to me too. These days you remedy the situation by trying to remember the...
FYNBOS AND FIRE: WHY DOES IT BURN?
With all this fuss made about the wonders of fynbos vegetation, it does seem a bit drastic that it all gets burnt to cinders from time to time. But stand in a patch of flower-spangled fynbos anywhere in the mountains in the Western Cape and you are looking at a...