The waboom forms part of South Africas fynbos vegetation and lives up to expectations with its adaptations to fire. |
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As many as a third of all plant species in the fynbos are dispersed by ants. |
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It has a particular vegetation, with fynbos and proteas, unusual little orchids and thousands of flower varieties. |
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What at first looks like a landscape dotted only with fynbos quickly reveals a much more coloured visage when examined more closely. |
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It brings new life for proteas, certain trees and fynbos plants. |
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With its trademark fynbos and renosterveld, forest and other unique plant types, the CFK stretches south from Clanwilliam to Cape Town and then east to Port Elizabeth. |
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It is planted with many varieties of Cape fynbos, cycads, huge strelitzias, beds of clivias, large arum lilies, proteas and trees such as yellowwood and cabbage. |
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Alternative, smaller crops include berries, fynbos, honeybush and pomegranates. |
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Ruwanza S, Musil CF, Esler KJ Sucrose application is ineffectual as a restoration aid in a transformed southern African lowland fynbos ecosystem. |
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Hermas, a genus endemic to the fynbos regions of the South African Cape Province, appears as the earliest diverging lineage of this group. |
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Many popular horticultural plants like pelargoniums, freesias, daisies, lilies and irises also have their origins in fynbos. |
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For most of the year, there are more small birds in coastal thicket than in fynbos. |
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The fynbos ecoregions are designated one of the Global 200 priority ecoregions for conservation. |
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The story from South Africa, was that in the fynbos, where proteaceous plants abound, bugs are 'thin on the ground. |
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Inspiration is found in the root and herb lore of the Khoikhoi, the Cape's first inhabitants and master foragers of the coastal shrubland fynbos. |
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Thwaites and Cowling documented that the synergy of soil characteristics, including nutrient content, texture, and pH, drove compositional differences in fynbos ecosystems. |
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The World Wildlife Fund divides the Cape floristic region into three ecoregions, the Lowland fynbos and renosterveld, Montane fynbos and renosterveld and the Albany thickets. |
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Common habitats include bogs, fens, swamps, marshes, the tepuis of Venezuela, the wallums of coastal Australia, the fynbos of South Africa, and moist streambanks. |
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There are several other smaller vygie species in Sand Plain Fynbos, and they have a similar ability to store water in their leaves. |
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The Lowland Fynbos is located at the southwestern tip of the African continent where it forms part of the Cape Floristic Region. |
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The Fynbos Vinegar, named for vegetation typical of the Cape region, is seasoned with honeybush tea, rose geranium, wild olive, grape must and buchu, a local bush. |
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