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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
by Thomas Margaret
An article on the feasibility of producing stinkwood trees from cuttings.
by McDonald David J., Powrie Fiona J.
The effort involved in the care of P. tricolor is well rewarded by five months of striking beauty when it flowers.
by Van Jaarsveld Ernst
Welwitschia mirabilis occurs widely in the Namib desert from Mossamedes in southern Angola to the Kuiseb River in central Namibia but, with a few exceptions, Welwitschia plants are seldom found more than 100 km to 150 km from the coast.
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.