Information Library
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 2000
by Holmes Patricia
Restoration has become an essential tool for improving ecosystem functioning, minimising biodiversity losses and increasing the connectivity in nature reserve networks.
by Reid Jill
A wild garden created and nurtured in very unkind conditions on the writer's property in a "stony little kloof in the lee of the Outeniqua Mountains".
by Goldblatt Peter, Manning John
Long-proboscid flies in a biological system unique to southern Africa.
by Campbell-Young Gael
A guide to identifying the new and rare species and subspecies of Rafnia, a little-known fynbos legume genus.
by Maneveldt Gavin, Frans René
Common green intertidal seaweeds of the Cape Peninsula.
by Bean Anne
A group of Botanical Society members sets off on a week-long Zimbabwe eastern districts flower tour to magnificent mountain sites between Harare and Chimanimani.
by Hesse Gretchen
A trip to the pink hillsides and kokerboom forests in the Bokkeveld.
by Abrahams Joy
The beautiful and interesting tree Terminalia sericea, variously called yellowwood and silver leaf.
by Milewski A.V.
The design of the umbrella thorn, Acacia tortilis, invites herbivores not only to rest in its shade, but also to eat its leaves and fruits.