About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
 | Our current sample image is of Adansonia digitata. 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, Wednesday, 21 November 2018, we have 6,397 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 28,801 images for 4,044 species, of which 3,828 are native or naturalised and 216 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 84,033.
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 |
| 17 Nov 2018 | Diospyros mespiliformis |
| 17 Nov 2018 | Calyptrochilum christyanum |
| 14 Nov 2018 | Ruellia prostrata |
| 12 Nov 2018 | Hippocratea volkensii |
| 12 Nov 2018 | Pilea usambarensis var. usambarensis |
| 10 Nov 2018 | Mostuea brunonis var. brunonis |
| 10 Nov 2018 | Hippocratea goetzei |
| 10 Nov 2018 | Crassula expansa subsp. expansa |
| 7 Nov 2018 | Bersama abyssinica subsp. engleriana |
| 5 Nov 2018 | Crotalaria natalitia var. rutshuruensis |
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 |
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
