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

During an investigation to see whether it was possible to restore an iconic, but endangered, community of shrubland plant ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...