Fynbos – which grows in a 100-to-200-km-wide coastal belt stretching from Clanwilliam on the West coast to Port Elizabeth on the Southeast coast – forms part of the Cape floral kingdom, where it accounts for half of the surface area and 80% of the plant species.

2017年11月21日 · Many of the Cape’s fynbos-based birds breed in the mild and wet winter months to avoid nesting in the summer fire season. Plants – especially proteas and aloes – respond by flowering at this time, even though there may be snow in the mountains.

This region is considered to be one of the world’s six floral kingdoms and is the only one that occurs within a single country. The area encompassed by the Fynbos Biome is known as the Cape Floristic Region (CFR). The Cape Floristic Region is recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site for its rich and diverse flora as well as levels of ...

The Cape Mountains are synonymous with the Cape Floral Kingdom, the tinniest of the planet’s 6 plant kingdoms, but ironically the most diverse. The Cape Floral Kingdom is divided into a number of specific biomes such as renosterveld and Afro-montane forest but it is the fynbos biome that dominates the mountains and is by far the dominant ...

South Africa's Cape floral kingdom is one of the richest areas in the world for plant biodiversity. Of the 9,000 plant species found here, a majority are native fynbos vegetation, which covers the region's magnificent mountains, and l owland valleys and coastal plains.

The flowers of this extraordinarily diverse flora are pollinated by both insects (but few butterflies) and nectar-eating birds, such as sunbirds (Nectarina) and the Cape sugarbird (Promerops cafer)—animals with which the proteoids have coevolved.

2023年12月4日 · Fynbos is unable to sustain much fauna, but there are some species here, including six endemic bird species, some of which help to pollinate the unique flora here. One such species is the cape sugarbird, a keystone species of fynbos, which can visit as many as 300 flowers in a single day. These birds, like many other nectar-feeders, have long ...

A beautiful cluster of white flowers in a sharp, conical shape. Occurs commonly in fairly large numbers. Can be seen on the grassy centre islands of the M3 below Newlands Forest. My earliest memory of these flowers was going to pick them on the Duckitt farm near Darling. Sighting: Rhodes Memorial [late October, November]

2021年2月23日 · You’ll see it all through fynbos: the flat spiky leaves of Arctopus echinatus would never make you think of a carrot but when it blooms in the Cape winter, you’ll see the classic umbrella-shaped flower that so characterises the Carrot family – Umbelliferae. Other familiar flowers are there too – you can’t mistake a flower from the Pea ...

It is common in fynbos particularly after fire on flats and slopes from Ceres to Stilbaai from 200-2,500m, flowering from September to December. Almost all sixty species in the genus are endemic to the Cape Floristic Region.