About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
 | Our current sample image is of Doryopteris concolor. 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, Friday, 18 October 2019, we have 6,397 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 31,501 images for 4,158 species, of which 3,902 are native or naturalised and 256 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 90,950.
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 Oct 2019 | Helichrysum rhodellum |
| 15 Oct 2019 | Plectranthus hadiensis |
| 13 Oct 2019 | Albuca kirkii |
| 11 Oct 2019 | Agathisanthemum globosum |
| 5 Oct 2019 | Acalypha ciliata |
| 1 Oct 2019 | Plectranthus stenophyllus |
| 28 Sep 2019 | Canthium inerme |
| 27 Sep 2019 | Indigofera cecilii |
| 19 Sep 2019 | Eustachys paspaloides |
| 17 Sep 2019 | Lagenaria breviflora |
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 |
Friday, 18 October 2019
