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Our collection of documents and journal articles about South African plants and related topics.
Veld & Flora
Veld & Flora is the journal of SANBI's partner, the Botanical Society of South Africa. The society has kindly given its permssion for the reproduction of selected articles from Veld&Flora to be displayed on this site. Copyright resides with the Botanical Society and anyone wishing to reproduce material from these journals is requested to contact them.
Veld & Flora 1993
by Dean Richard, Milton Suzanne
Harvester ants enrich patches of soil with plant nutrients, providing sites for seedlings.
by Johnson Steve, Johnson Kathy
Horseflies, despite their evil reputation and beastly appearance, are actually invaluable to the plant world.
by Kurzweil H., Burger M.
After forty-five years without a sighting, Disa minor is found in the mountains of the southwestern Cape.
by Duncan Graham
Notes on the cultivation, propagation and availability of the genus Dietes.
by Scott Gillian
Careful husbanding of South Africa’s medicinal plant resources would not only be sound conservation policy but good economic sense.
by Van Jaarsveld Ernst
Tylecodon singularis is a plant remarkable for its ability to make use of the fog in the arid Namib habitat.
by Vlok Jan
Adaptations to survive the challenging conditions of its natural habitat might have led to the rarity of this alpine species.
by Pike Barbara
Androcymbium melanthioides is the most common of about thirty species in its genus in southern Africa.
by Barker Nigel P.
The fynbos contains many grass species, most of which are endemic to the fynbos region and many of these species are “rare” or “infrequent”. One such example is Pentameris longiglumis.
by Dry Danie
This attractive indigenous tree, often depicted by Pierneef, is perhaps not so difficult to grow.