You probably noticed that we used two naming conventions when referring to a flower: the common vernacular and the botanical name. One isn’t superior to the other and they both serve important purposes.Vernacular names are often in Afrikaans because the first European explorers and migrant farmers were Dutch – and the Dutch names were later taken into Afrikaans.There are, however, also vernacular names in English and Zulu, to
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Nov 01, 2023
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