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Cape Town's wildflowers are a world treasure: Six insights from a new checklist

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By Dian Spear, Nicola van Wilgen-Bredenkamp, Patricia Holmes
| Phys.org Verified
Credit: Kristina Paukshtite from Pexels Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain National Park and its surrounds are home to 2,785 species, including subspecies and varieties. This is more plant species than in some European countries and national parks in the United States.
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Cape Town’s wildflowers are a world treasure: six insights from a new checklist

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By Dian Spear, Nicola van Wilgen-Bredenkamp, Patricia Holmes, Ronell R Klopper, Tony Rebelo
| Modern Ghana Verified
Cape Town, in South Africa, is famous for its dramatic mountains and coastline, but its greatest treasure lies in the plants that carpet its slopes and valleys. Table Mountain National Park and its surrounds are home to 2,785 species, including subspecies and varieties. This is more plant species than in some European countries and national parks in the United States. We are a group of botanists and conservation scientists who set out to update the plant species checklist for the Cape Peninsula.
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Lost fynbos seeds from underground ‘time capsules’ in South Africa can grow again

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By Alanna Rebelo, Karen Joan Esler, Patricia Holmes, Tony Rebelo
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19 March 2025 - 04:30 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. The replica of the winning display at 'Chelsea Flowers in Stanford'. Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive. These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants preserve their seeds.
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