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, Tuesday, 21 May 2019, we have 6,394 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 30,255 images for 4,098 species, of which 3,872 are native or naturalised and 226 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 87,038.
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 |
| 20 May 2019 | Agathisanthemum bojeri |
| 17 May 2019 | Heteromorpha involucrata |
| 16 May 2019 | Indigofera goetzei |
| 13 May 2019 | Psychotria pumila var. pumila |
| 11 May 2019 | Tribulus terrestris |
| 11 May 2019 | Ficus capreifolia |
| 11 May 2019 | Sopubia karaguensis var. karaguensis |
| 11 May 2019 | Phyllanthus maderaspatensis |
| 9 May 2019 | Aleurites moluccana |
| 6 May 2019 | Baikiaea plurijuga |
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 |
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
