About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
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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, 18 August 2018, we have 6,382 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 27,806 images for 4,001 species, of which 3,793 are native or naturalised and 208 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 82,732.
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 |
| 16 Jul 2018 | Buddleja davidii |
| 14 Jul 2018 | Dicoma macrocephala |
| 13 Jul 2018 | Aloe aculeata |
| 11 Jul 2018 | Rhamphicarpa fistulosa |
| 10 Jul 2018 | Crotalaria steudneri |
| 6 Jul 2018 | Commiphora africana |
| 6 Jul 2018 | Ipomoea magnusiana |
| 5 Jul 2018 | Empogona jenniferae |
| 4 Jul 2018 | Zanthoxylum capense |
| 4 Jul 2018 | Rhus lancea |
The Zimbabwe Flora Team
| Mark Hyde | Bart Wursten | Petra Ballings | Meg Coates Palgrave | |||
| mahyde(at)gmail.com | ndundu(at)zol.co.zw | ballings.petra(at)telenet.be | megcp(at)zol.co.zw |
Saturday, 18 August 2018
