Q:When I was in South Africa, I was fascinated to see king protea growing wild. I tried unsuccessfully to bring back a starter kit for one of them. It didn't grow. I have kept an eye out for one here ...

Fynbos is fire-dependent vegetation: it needs to burn around every 15 years to stimulate new growth. Over millennia, fynbos plants have developed remarkable adaptations — some only release their seeds ...

Pretoria - University of Pretoria (UP) researchers are at the forefront of a very special first for South African plant sciences. They have unravelled the precise genetic make-up of the country’s ...

The Western Cape Province of South Africa holds the richest biodiversity in all of botany. Three-quarters of its 8,600 plant species are endemic, flourishing upon a mere 0.4 percent of earth -- a ...

(1) Seedling development under nutrient-deficient conditions was investigated for five bradysporous members of the Proteaceae to test the hypothesis that large seed size and high embryo nutritional ...

This picture does not show a pagoda flower (nor the "auspicious Mahameru flower") but rather a plant called the Rheum nobile. While this large plant is native to the Himalayas, it does not bloom once ...

South Africa's Group of Twenty (G20) Presidency website is officially live with the national flower- the King Protea - as the logo which reflects the country's identity, landscape, and cultural ...