About the website
Sample image from the Zimbabwe flora
 | Our current sample image is of Gerrardina eylesiana. 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, Tuesday, 19 June 2018, we have 6,385 native or naturalised species in the database for Zimbabwe. There are 27,663 images for 3,993 species, of which 3,785 are native or naturalised and 208 are purely cultivated.
The total number of records in the database (for all countries) is 82,441.
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 |
| 15 Jun 2018 | Plectranthus selukwensis |
| 14 Jun 2018 | Toddalia asiatica |
| 14 Jun 2018 | Alysicarpus rugosus subsp. perennirufus |
| 14 Jun 2018 | Chenopodium carinatum |
| 13 Jun 2018 | Barleria crassa subsp. crassa |
| 13 Jun 2018 | Helichrysum lepidissimum |
| 13 Jun 2018 | Cineraria mazoensis var. graniticola |
| 13 Jun 2018 | Oldenlandia rupicola var. rupicola |
| 13 Jun 2018 | Lobelia erinus |
| 13 Jun 2018 | Streptocarpus eylesii subsp. eylesii |
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 |
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
