About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
 | Our current sample image is of Polygala krumanina. Click on the thumbnail image to see the full image or click on the species name to find out more. Reload the page to see further images of Zimbabwean plants. |
This site provides information about the flowering plants and ferns of Zimbabwe. This is a sister site to the Flora of Botswana, Caprivi, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia websites, which together cover the Flora Zambesiaca area.
The principal contributors to the site are Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Meg Coates Palgrave and Mark Hyde.
As of today, Thursday, 18 July 2019, we have 6,395 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 31,088 images for 4,134 species, of which 3,893 are native or naturalised and 241 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 87,607.
The Site history page gives details of the latest additions to the site. There is also a frequently asked questions page.
View recently edited pages
As a guide to where to look for new content, below are details of some of the most recently updated pages. Further recently updated species may be found on this page.
| Date | Species |
| 17 Jul 2019 | Crotalaria recta |
| 13 Jul 2019 | Ceratophyllum demersum var. demersum |
| 13 Jul 2019 | Boscia foetida subsp. rehmanniana |
| 13 Jul 2019 | Drypetes mossambicensis |
| 13 Jul 2019 | Gymnosporia putterlickioides |
| 13 Jul 2019 | Maerua parvifolia |
| 13 Jul 2019 | Salvadora persica var. persica |
| 13 Jul 2019 | Euphorbia confinalis subsp. rhodesiaca |
| 13 Jul 2019 | Maerua kirkii |
| 13 Jul 2019 | Salvadora australis |
The Zimbabwe Flora Team
| Mark Hyde | Bart Wursten | Petra Ballings | Meg Coates Palgrave | |||
| mahyde(at)gmail.com | btwursten(at)gmail.com | ballings.petra(at)telenet.be | megcp(at)zol.co.zw |
Thursday, 18 July 2019
