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Apparently, rooibos tea is a traditional drink of Khoi-descended people of the Cederberg (and "poor whites"). However, that tradition has not been traced further back than the last quarter of the 19th century. [19] Traditionally, the local people would climb the mountains and cut the fine needle-like leaves from wild rooibos plants.
The plant is native to the Western Cape in the Cederberg. The plant's habitat is threatened by the rooibos tea industry. [citation needed] In Afrikaans, ...
Aspalathus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.The yellow flowers and spiny habit of some species have suggested a resemblance to Ulex europaeus, the thorny "English gorse" [2] Accordingly, "Cape Gorse" has been proposed as a common name although the resemblance is largely superficial; for instance, gorse is thorny, whereas Aspalathus species are variously spiny or unarmed.
Benjamin Ginsberg (Беньямин-Тевья Гинзбург, 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1886, Moscow, Russian Empire [1] – 14 February 1944, Cape Town, South Africa) was a South African businessman, credited with pioneering the commercialisation of rooibos.
Barbara Chung fell in love with native plants, but she didn't have a yard. So she created a habitat garden in pots on her tiny townhouse patio in Santa Monica.
Many animals use the tree, especially for food. Kudu, bushbuck, elands, giraffes, and elephants browse the leaves. [3] Eland are so attracted to the tree that they can do damage to it with their feeding. [7]
New plants can be seen in various stages of growth. The infertile white soil that fynbos tends to grow in can also be clearly seen. Fynbos (/ ˈ f eɪ n b ɒ s /; Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈfəinbɔs], lit. ' fine bush ') is a small belt of natural shrubland or heathland vegetation located in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces of ...
This forest area is the main habitat of the critically endangered and endemic Djibouti spurfowl, [1] and another recently noted vertebrate, Platyceps afarensis. [2] The area also contains many species of woody and herbaceous plants, including boxwood and olive trees, which account for sixty percent of the identified species in the country. [3] [4]