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South Africa’s large areas of semi-desert scrub and grassland might suggest a certain poverty of plant life. Aside from the fact that a tract of pristine grassland can hold up to 60 grass species, nothing could be further from the truth.

There are five major habitat types in South Africa: fynbos, forest, Karoo, grassland, and savannah. The country can also be divided into seven biomes, or ecological life zones, with distinct environmental conditions and related sets of plant and animal life: Nama Karoo, succulent Karoo, fynbos, forest, thicket, savanna, and grassland.

Whichever classification is used, some 10% of the world’s flowering species are found in South Africa, the only country in the world with an entire plant kingdom inside its borders: the Cape Floristic Kingdom, which contains 8 600 species, 68% of them endemic. The Cape Peninsula alone boasts more plant species than the whole of Great Britain.

Fynbos:

This southwestern area of South Africa is the home of the fynbos, which is composed of ericas (heathers), proteas and the grass-like restios. Most spectacular in flower are the proteas, which include the king protea – the national flower – and others of broadly similar shape, the pincushion leucospermum types and spiky leucadendrons. The colour range is vast.

The ericas, the largest genus of flowering plants in South Africa, are more delicate, repaying close examination of their almost infinite variety of colour and form. One or other of these species will be found in bloom at almost any time of the year.

These share their Cape home with such beauties as the red disa orchid, one of South Africa’s 550 wild orchids, which grows in the mountains, as well as numerous irises, pelargoniums and many more.

South Africa’s pelargoniums, in particular, have contributed greatly to gardens all over the world, as have the arum lilies – the classic white species is from this area, the yellow and pink from elsewhere in the country.

The world’s gardens also have South Africa to thank for the agapanthus, gladiolus, Barberton daisy and Gardenia thunbergia, to name a few.

Carpet of flowers:

The Cape in the spring is a breathtaking sight, but even more astonishing is Namaqualand. Dry, rocky and desert-like for the rest of the year, it yields its floral wealth for a short few weeks in the spring in dazzling sheets of colour.

The golden yellow and orange Namaqualand daisies are predominant, but in between them are a wide variety of flowers, including the iridescent succulent mesembryanthemums. Colours here are particularly intense, although there is also much fascination in less colourful species such as the quiver tree (the San, or Bushmen, used to make quivers from its fibrous stem) and the bizarre-looking tall succulent known as the halfmens (half human).

And anyone interested in plants’ abilitiesto adapt to harsh circumstances in a myriad different ways (not all are succulents) need not wait for spring to visit the area.

Forests:

Although South Africa has more than a thousand indigenous trees, large species are relatively scarce in many parts of the country.

But they are very much at home in some areas, such as the Knysna-Tsitsikamma forest with its tall stinkwoods, black ironwoods and yellowwoods, and the northeastern region in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, home to the ancient cycads and Lowveld species such as the fever tree – so called because of its association with malaria areas.

It is also in the north that one finds the famous thick-stemmed baobab, which according to African myth was accidentally planted upside down, accounting for the odd shape of its branches.

Then there are the forests of KwaZulu-Natal, where the beautiful shade-loving orange Clivia miniata, a now much cultivated member of the amaryllis family, is found.

Another popular orange (and purple) garden flower, now the emblem of the US city of Los Angeles, originates in the Eastern Cape: the strelitzia. In much the same colour range, South Africa’s winters are marked by the flowering of some of the country’s 140 species of aloes.

The Eastern Cape’s Greater Addo National Park, which stretches 200 kilometres from the coast to the Karoo, includes samples of six of the seven South African biomes mentioned above, lacking only the succulent Karoo.

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Gerald Crawford was born in South Africa, studied electronics, telecommunication, eco-travel and african travel concepts. He taught responsible tourism in South Africa. If you have any questions or comments please e-mail me on. E-mail Address: southafricantravelarticles@12234455.co.za Website Address: http://www.12234455.co.za

Recommend me some manga like these?

I’ve been reading lots of manga lately… and need some more! I like manga with good art too!

but please…… dont say vampire knight or ouran high school host club :L

Here’s the manga i’ve already read:

Dengeki Daisy (probs my fave atm – i love the art! )
Strobe edge
Lovely Complex
Maid-sama
Kimi ni todoke
High school debut
Nanaco robin
Kyou Koi wo Hajimemasu
B.O.D.Y
Love berrish!
Special A
Stardust wink
Axis powers hetalia (dont think it fits in with the genre of all the others i listed xD)
Oh and legend of zelda & kingdom hearts manga too but that also doesnt fit in with the same genre as the ones listed :L

i read more than that but i cant remember the names :L

aaand does anyone know what manga the character in this pic is from? dont say kingdom hearts lol

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kingdom_hearts_ii/v02/c010/31.html

many thanks!

Zettai Heiwa Daisakusen

http://www.mangareader.net/682/zettai-heiwa-daisakusen.html

Sukitte ii Na Yo

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/sukitte_ii_na_yo/

Venus Capriccio

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/venus_capriccio/

Goong

http://www.mangareader.net/462/goong.html

Bokura Ga Ita

http://www.mangareader.net/1055/bokura-ga-ita.html

Switch Girl!!

Romeo x Juliey

Koukou Debut

Akuma To Love Song

http://www.mangareader.net/367/akuma-to-love-song.html

Hana Kimi

Honey & Clover

Clannad

Kaze Hikaru

Toradora!

Nodame Cantabile (One of my favorite mangas)

http://www.mangareader.net/128/nodame-cantabile.html

Akagami no Shirayuki Hime

http://www.mangareader.net/355/akagami-no-shirayukihime.html

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge

Akuma to Dolce

The One

Reimei no Arcana

Bride of The Water God

http://www.mangareader.net/110/the-bride-of-the-water-god.html

Pig Bride

Shinobi Life

http://www.mangareader.net/347/shinobi-life.html

Eureka 7 (The anime and the manga, it’s not romance centered, but has very obvious couples)

Yankee-Kun-To-Megane-Chan (same as Eureka 7)

Soul Eater

(Legend of Zelda, Kingdom Hearts etc)

Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE

Double Arts

Pandora Hearts

The Tales of (Series) (Destiny, Vesperia, Abyss etc)

Chrono Crusade

Managa’s by Motomi, Kyousuke (Dengeki Daisy)

Beast Master

Penguin Prince

Otokomae! Beads Club

Well, I hope that gives you some stuff…I was going to link all of the mangas, but it told me to take 19 links out, so have fun searching for the rest.

Stuffed mario bros.episode 1 attack at daisy’s kingdom part 2

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