This vibrant flowering plant loves the sun, is tolerant of soil conditions, and does not do well with cold. Introduced from South Africa to England in 1788, the bird of paradise is now a favorite ...

A biodiversity hotspot in a remote part of South Africa ... origin of a plant, and under no circumstances should they buy those advertised as wild. Traffic and the UK's Kew Gardens recently ...

ENGLISH gardens ... to plants of other geographical regions, brought by botanical explorers. It is perhaps rather surprising that the flora of high mountains in equatorial East Africa has as ...

South Africa's succulents - small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas - are sought after by an increasingly ...

A college student told me that she loves her snake plant. Snake plant ... in the Asparagaceae family from western tropical Africa. It has thick upright leaves (18 to 30 inches tall) that are ...

the IUCN Succulent Plant Illegal Trade Task Force and the Community Task Team linked to South Africa's National Response Strategy and Action Plan to address the illegal trade in South African ...

South Africa's succulents—small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas—are sought after by an increasingly ...