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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 2004
by Manning John
Horseflies and other long-proboscid flies spotted pollinating pincushions (from the protea family) for the very first time.
by Van Noort Simon
Fig flowers are completely concealed within the central cavity of the fig, so what on earth would crawl inside the fig to do the pollinating honours?
by Dzerefos Cathy
The story of the Haenertsburg grasslands of Limpopo.
by McMaster Cameron
The story of the discovery of yet another Cyrtanthus in the Eastern Cape.
by Boucher Charlie, Withers Melanie
The only one of its kind - the unique Cape river plant Prionium serratum.
by Siebert Stefan, Ramdhani Syd
Botanizing on the roof of Africa - the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia.