About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
 | Our current sample image is of Tristemma mauritianum var. mauritianum. 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, Monday, 23 April 2018, we have 6,388 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 27,269 images for 3,978 species, of which 3,771 are native or naturalised and 207 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 81,263.
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 Apr 2018 | Emilia ambifaria |
| 15 Apr 2018 | Pascalia glauca |
| 15 Apr 2018 | Indigofera rhynchocarpa var. rhynchocarpa |
| 15 Apr 2018 | Crotalaria pallidicaulis |
| 31 Mar 2018 | Barleria coriacea |
| 31 Mar 2018 | Justicia divaricata |
| 23 Mar 2018 | Hermannia eenii |
| 22 Mar 2018 | Zehneria marlothii |
| 22 Mar 2018 | Euphorbia mossambicensis |
| 22 Mar 2018 | Pleiotaxis eximia subsp. eximia |
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 |
Monday, 23 April 2018
