Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive.

The seeds in question belong to a plant community called the Cape Flats Sand (CFS) Fynbos, the largest portion of which is ...

This is where invasive plants such as port jackson are chopped down, stacked on top of each other and allowed to dry out before being burnt. Fynbos takes longer to regenerate on burnt land.

The protea, South Africa's flower family, is an enormous collection of genus and species that now are being grown in ...

If we find that Sambar deer are not a threat to endangered fynbos and that they preferentially consume aliens (including invasive kikuyu grass) without spreading them, then they should be left alone.

Hundreds of ancient fynbos species could regrow and restore a former pine plantation on Cape Town’s Table Mountain, but only if the remaining pine trees are removed.

Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden's long-serving principal horticulturist co-authored what promises to become the standard reference on South African garden plants.

These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants preserve their seeds. Our research in the Cape Floristic Region discovered that fynbos seed banks that have survived ...

The seeds in question belong to a plant community called the Cape Flats Sand (CFS) Fynbos, the largest portion of which is found in Tokai Park, part of Cape Town’s Table Mountain National Park.

These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants preserve their seeds. Fynbos is a special community of plants found only in South Africa. Some of the most famous are ...