About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
 | Our current sample image is of Ruellia prostrata. 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 August 2019, we have 6,396 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 31,172 images for 4,139 species, of which 3,895 are native or naturalised and 244 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 87,746.
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 Aug 2019 | Millettia stuhlmannii |
| 15 Aug 2019 | Polystachya albescens subsp. imbricata |
| 15 Aug 2019 | Habenaria papyracea |
| 15 Aug 2019 | Eulophia schweinfurthii |
| 15 Aug 2019 | Eulophia flavopurpurea |
| 15 Aug 2019 | Habenaria uncicalcar |
| 14 Aug 2019 | Orthochilus rarus |
| 12 Aug 2019 | Stolzia repens var. repens |
| 12 Aug 2019 | Stolzia repens var. obtusa |
| 10 Aug 2019 | Bolusiella iridifolia subsp. picea |
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 August 2019
