About the website

About our volunteer, Eleanor Shadwell

Meet our latest volunteer, Eleanor Shadwell, who has been helping our project by preparing and uploading images to the website. Eleanor has an MSc degree in Botany from the University of Cape Town and is interested in a variety of aspects of ecology, from the reintroduction of giraffe to individual species’ conservation. Recently she spent a month and a half in the Tankwa Karoo helping in a Hot Birds’ project and has been an on-the-ground assistant earlier this month for the South African Association of Botanists (SAAB) during their 2020 conference in Qwaqwa, RSA. She is a research assistant in Zimbabwe for a conservation consultant, is a very keen ultimate frisbee player (yes, it is a sport!) and general outdoor enthusiast, currently exploring the Drakensberg despite the rain.

Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora

Our current sample image is of Hedychium gardnerianum. 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, Saturday, 6 June 2020, we have 6,399 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 32,722 images for 4,195 species, of which 3,934 are native or naturalised and 261 are purely cultivated.

The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 93,370.

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.

The Zimbabwe Flora Team

Saturday, 6 June 2020