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Constantia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. [1] It contains 6 known species, all endemic to Brazil: [2] [3] Constantia australis (Cogn.) Porto & Brade - Santa Catarina; Constantia cipoensis Porto & Brade - Minas Gerais; Constantia cristinae F.E.L.Miranda - Minas Gerais; Constantia gutfreundiana Chiron & V.P ...
In 1913 Klein Constantia was purchased by Abraham Lochner de Villiers, a wealthy milliner from Paarl, and his American heiress wife, Clara Hussey. The house and its estate were restored when the couple made the Klein Constantia manor house their home during the year before the First World War. Life at Klein Constantia took an exuberant turn.
Seedlings are best planted out in good soil several metres away from paving and walls, but once established, they will do well even in fairly challenging conditions. There is some reluctance to plant the tree in small gardens because it grows quite large, and some care is necessary because heavy branches growing at an unfavourable angle may ...
Olof Martini Bergh was born on 16 April 1643. [1] in Gothenburg in Sweden to Norwegian parents.Little is known about his pre-South African background; however, he appears to have been the youngest son from an aristocratic family of Swedish-Norwegian origin.
The soil food web is the community of organisms living all or part of their lives in the soil. It describes a complex living system in the soil and how it interacts with the environment, plants, and animals. Food webs describe the transfer of energy between species in an ecosystem.
The area is now home to 11 wine farms (Andrews, 2017). It is the oldest winegrowing region in the country, with the farm Groot Constantia being the oldest wine estate. Another well-known name in the region is Klein Constantia, which was established in 1685 by the VOC Governor of the Cape Simon van der Stel.
In Sense and Sensibility (1811), Jane Austen's character Mrs Jennings recommends a glass of "the finest old Constantia wine" for the broken-hearted Marianne, on the grounds that it helped her late husband's colicky gout; Elinor, though amused by the incongruity, still drinks the wine to try "its healing powers on a disappointed heart" – her own.
Fire destroys the plant but the seeds survive. Two months after flowering, the fruit falls off and ants disperse the seeds. They store the seeds in their nests. The plant is bisexual. Pollination takes place through the action of insects. The plant grows in sandy soil at elevations of 0–350 m. In Afrikaans it is known as gouespinnekopbos. [3]