Tokai Park is of global interest because of the vegetation that occurs there: Cape Flats Sand Fynbos contains 14 species that ...

These narrow borders between dramatically different ecosystems are maintained by intense competition between plants’ roots, new research suggests. Fynbos — a type of species-rich shrubland ...

The fynbos is the country's most invaded ecosystem and most of the research on invasive plants has taken place in this ecosystem. Despite the large extent of invasive plants in the fynbos ...

Here's some advice for landowners wanting to remove pine trees in the hope of seeing fynbos plants on their properties again: do so before the trees have grown there for more than 30 years.

Most of us only think about the easily visible parts of plants — stems, flowers, leaves — but in a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Princeton ecologists Lars ...

Fynbos plants, such as proteas, need fire to be able to release seeds and reproduce, explains van Wilgen. In mature fynbos plants, fires stimulate them to release their seeds which then germinate.

Tokai Park is of global interest because of the vegetation that occurs there: Cape Flats Sand Fynbos contains 14 species that exist only in the Cape and more than 42 Red List plant species – two ...

The fynbos is the country’s most invaded ecosystem and most of the research on invasive plants has taken place in this ecosystem. Despite the large extent of invasive plants in the fynbos ...