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3 unusual facts about Edward Stuart Cardinal Dyke


Edward Stuart Cardinal Dyke

On Matroosberg in the Hex River Mountains, he discovered a new species of "everlasting", flowers that in those days were generally included in the genus Helichrysum.

Edward Dyke's father was a cashier in Cape Government Railways and in that respect Dyke followed in his father's footsteps; he was a railway employee most of his life.

The genus has since been split however, and the species has been assigned to another genus, as Syncarpha dykei (Bolus) B. Nord.



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