About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
 | Our current sample image is of Gardenia volkensii subsp. spatulifolia. 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, Monday, 18 October 2021, we have 6,396 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 33,883 images for 4,275 species, of which 4,002 are native or naturalised and 273 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 100,654.
The Site history page gives details of the latest additions to the site. There is also a frequently asked questions page.
Flora Zambesiaca
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The Flora Zambesiaca project has been the principal source of information for our project, particularly the keys, descriptions and images. It has been an invaluable tool to enable us to identify the many plant specimens we have recorded and collected and has been one of the most important sources to teach us the botanical skills we have acquired. Further information about Flora Zambesiaca can be found at this link. The picture shows the much-used and now dog-eared volumes which accompany us on our field trips. |
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 |
| 3 Oct 2021 | Nervilia crociformis |
| 19 Sep 2021 | Tephrosia lurida |
| 14 Sep 2021 | Plectranthus porphyranthus |
| 8 Aug 2021 | Lintonia nutans |
| 8 Aug 2021 | Ischaemum afrum |
| 8 Aug 2021 | Tetrapogon tenellus |
| 12 Jul 2021 | Eulophia streptopetala |
| 23 Jun 2021 | Stoebe vulgaris |
| 23 Jun 2021 | Ipomoea barteri var. barteri |
| 22 Jun 2021 | Tylophora apiculata |
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 |
Monday, 18 October 2021
