About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
 | Our current sample image is of Pleopeltis macrocarpa. 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, 19 April 2019, we have 6,395 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 29,696 images for 4,081 species, of which 3,858 are native or naturalised and 223 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 86,081.
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 |
| 18 Apr 2019 | Satyrium coriophoroides |
| 17 Apr 2019 | Buchnera cryptocephala var. cryptocephala |
| 12 Apr 2019 | Commelina neurophylla |
| 12 Apr 2019 | Anisopappus chinensis subsp. chinensis var. buchwaldii |
| 5 Apr 2019 | Eriosema lebrunii |
| 3 Apr 2019 | Epilobium capense |
| 3 Apr 2019 | Conyza tigrensis |
| 30 Mar 2019 | Limosella australis |
| 25 Mar 2019 | Habenaria epipactidea |
| 23 Mar 2019 | Sopubia eminii |
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, 19 April 2019
