Underground seed banks in South Africa ... Sand Fynbos contains 14 species that exist only in the Cape and more than 42 Red List plant species—two of these extinct in the wild. One example ...

Invasive plants and trees were introduced to South Africa from as early as the 17th ... Clearing efforts are focused on the Western Cape's fynbos ecosystem. The fynbos is the country's most ...

The ‘Cape Floral Kingdom’ is home to thousands of plants unique to South Africa ... mature fynbos plants, fires stimulate them to release their seeds which then germinate. For example ...

Thirty percent of the plants in South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region are ... fill a field in the Postberg Nature Reserve in the West Coast National Park. Photograph by Paul Bruins, Getty Images ...

This is South Africa’s unwanted army of over 380 invasive alien plant species ... Route on the south coast of the country is home to indigenous forests, fire-prone fynbos shrublands and fire ...

Flowering fynbos, Tylecodon grandiflorus (a crassula), looking North East over False Bay from the Cape of Good Hope section of Table Mountain National Park. 17 May 2017 GroundUp (Cape Town) ...