About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
 | Our current sample image is of Glossostelma carsonii. 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, Wednesday, 26 September 2018, we have 6,383 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 28,284 images for 4,023 species, of which 3,811 are native or naturalised and 212 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 83,464.
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 |
| 24 Sep 2018 | Tulbaghia alliacea |
| 24 Sep 2018 | Tulbaghia leucantha |
| 21 Sep 2018 | Chassalia parvifolia |
| 21 Sep 2018 | Cyperus nduru |
| 20 Sep 2018 | Olinia chimanimani |
| 17 Sep 2018 | Indigofera atriceps subsp. atriceps |
| 13 Sep 2018 | Eriosema montanum |
| 12 Sep 2018 | Crotalaria lachnocarpoides |
| 12 Sep 2018 | Dolichos sericeus subsp. sericeus |
| 12 Sep 2018 | Lotus discolor subsp. discolor |
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 |
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
