March Flower: South Africa
April Fool, Blood flower, Paintbrush Lily, PowderPuff Lily, King-of-Candia, Picushion
A Summer surprise popping from bulbs! The bulb contains coccinine which is an alkaloid with a known convulsive action.
Fresh leaves were applied as a dressing to septic ulcers and sores and also to the pustules of anthrax. A diuretic was made from the sliced bulb boiled in vinegar and mixed with honey. Asthma was also treated with this mixture. www.plantzafrica.com
A Summer surprise popping from bulbs! The bulb contains coccinine which is an alkaloid with a known convulsive action.
Gerard Moerdijk: S. African Architect
The Voortrekker Monument was built in honor of the
Construction began on the 13th July 1937 and it was inaugurated on 16th December 1949.
Monument to Karle Landman leader of the Voortrekkers.
Paleontologists Uncover World’s Oldest Dinosaur Nesting Site
This is an artist’s interpretation, showing 190 million year old nests, eggs, hatchlings and adults of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus in
Credit: Artwork by Julius Csotonyi
Close-up of embryonic skeleton of Massospondylus from clutch of eggs at the nesting site.
Credit: Photo by D. Scott
Legendary fossil hunter
James Kitching found thousands of important pre-dinosaur fossils from more than 250-million years ago in the Karoo (South Africa) , and also helped prove the Theory of Ccontinental Drift: that Southern Africa was once part of a much larger land mass that included Antarctica, parts of the Americas and Australia.
There was a lot of debate about whether Gondwana Continent (South America, southern Africa and Antarctica) had ever existed.
