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This website celebrates the plants of southern Africa. Each week we bring you two new Plants of the Week and the Information Library contains hundreds of articles about southern Africa plants and related topics. Read More

Plants of the week

Common names: northern Bushman’s grape, bitter grape, wild...

This shrubby climber has many features that make it an ideal garden...

Kirstenbosch NBG

Rhoicissus tridentata

Common names: wolwekos (Afr.); ihlule, umavumbuka (isiZulu)

Sarcophyte sanguinea subsp. sanguinea is a parasitic plant that...

National Herbarium Pretoria

Sarcophyte sanguinea subsp. sanguinea

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News & Updates

Welcome to our new PlantZAfrica website

We have now completed the transfer of information from our old site to this site, and say a fond farewell to our old site which was at www.plantzafrica.com. Please let us know if you experience any problems with redirected URLs.

Gardening with South African Plants

We have added a new Gardening with South African Plants section to the Information Library where we will be putting all gardening related topics. Our first article is on gardening with fragrant and aromatic plants.