About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
 | Our current sample image is of Ficus religiosa. 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, Thursday, 27 June 2019, we have 6,395 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 30,739 images for 4,109 species, of which 3,880 are native or naturalised and 229 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 87,379.
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 |
| 19 Jun 2019 | Nothoperanema squamiseta |
| 19 Jun 2019 | Cyperus involucratus |
| 17 Jun 2019 | Clausena anisata |
| 13 Jun 2019 | Thesium fastigiatum |
| 4 Jun 2019 | Philenoptera bussei |
| 30 May 2019 | Vangueria proschii |
| 28 May 2019 | Heteromorpha stenophylla var. transvaalensis |
| 27 May 2019 | Heteromorpha involucrata |
| 20 May 2019 | Agathisanthemum bojeri |
| 16 May 2019 | Indigofera goetzei |
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 |
Thursday, 27 June 2019
