{"id":139814,"date":"2019-06-22T10:35:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T08:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/pachypodium-namaquanum-flowers\/"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T08:35:33","slug":"pachypodium-namaquanum-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/pachypodium-namaquanum-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pachypodium namaquanum flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pachypodium namaquanum flowers<\/strong>
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\nImage by Martin_Heigan<\/a><\/i>
\nPachypodium namaquanum (Halfmens) flowers photographed in habitat at Halfmenskloof in the Richtersveld Transfrontier National Park (an UNESCO World Heritage Site), Northern Cape, South Africa (September 2009).<\/p>\n

Best viewed LARGE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Legend of the Halfmens: <\/b><\/i>
\nHalfmens is translated as "Half Human" in English. The Khoisan Bushman has a beautiful story that has been told to generations, and it explains how Halfmens plants were created. <\/p>\n

The Khoisan Bushman were driven away from their birth land (The Kalahari Desert) by invading tribes. It filled them with grief, and some of the Khoisan people kept on looking back and turned into Halfmens plants. As a result the crown of Halfmens plants always turn to the North, longing for the day that they can return to their beloved birth land.<\/i><\/p>\n

Martin
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\nAll things beautiful in Nature Group<\/a>
\nSucculent Treasures of the Desert Group<\/a>
\nThe World Up-Close (Nature Macro) Group<\/a><\/p>\n

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Pachypodium namaquanum flowers Image by Martin_Heigan Pachypodium namaquanum (Halfmens) flowers photographed in habitat at Halfmenskloof in the Richtersveld Transfrontier National Park (an UNESCO World Heritage Site), Northern Cape, South Africa (September 2009). Best viewed LARGE. The Legend of the Halfmens: Halfmens is translated as "Half Human" in English. The Khoisan Bushman has a beautiful story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9014],"tags":[9681,35122,35121],"class_list":{"0":"post-139814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-images","7":"tag-flowers","8":"tag-namaquanum","9":"tag-pachypodium","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}