Flowers of Africa
Proteas and fynbos, desert daisies, flame trees, roses of the Rift Valley and the Atlas. 126 pages on Phool so far.
🇿🇦 South Africa 99🇲🇦 Morocco 26🇪🇬 Egypt 24🇬🇦 Gabon 22🇩🇿 Algeria 18🇲🇬 Madagascar 16🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 14🇸🇿 Eswatini 13🇪🇹 Ethiopia 12🇹🇳 Tunisia 12🇱🇸 Lesotho 11🇦🇴 Angola 10🇲🇿 Mozambique 10🇧🇼 Botswana 9🇬🇳 Guinea 9🇰🇪 Kenya 9🇳🇦 Namibia 9🇲🇼 Malawi 8🇲🇺 Mauritius 7🇹🇿 Tanzania 7🇬🇭 Ghana 4🇸🇩 Sudan 4🇿🇲 Zambia 4🇨🇲 Cameroon 3🇳🇬 Nigeria 3🇸🇳 Senegal 3🇸🇴 Somalia 3🇺🇬 Uganda 3🇪🇷 Eritrea 2🇱🇾 Libya 2🇸🇨 Seychelles 2🇨🇻 Cape Verde 1🇰🇲 Comoros 1🇲🇷 Mauritania 1🇷🇼 Rwanda 1🇸🇸 South Sudan 1
Arabian coffeeCoffea arabica
The white-flowered shrub whose beans make most of the world’s coffee
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 4 more · Wildflower
Place
Victoria Botanical Gardens
A 15-acre botanical garden in Victoria, Mahé, focused on Seychelles' native plants
Victoria, 🇸🇨 Seychelles · Botanical garden
Royal poincianaDelonix regia
A tropical tree with bright red-orange flowers and fern-like leaves
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 8 more · Flowering tree
Red DisaDisa uniflora
A striking red orchid from the mountain streams of South Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Lampranthus
A succulent with large, vivid flowers from southern Africa
🇳🇦 Namibia and 1 more · Wildflower
Protea neriifolia
A South African shrub with cone-shaped flower heads and hairy-tipped bracts
🇿🇦 South Africa and 3 more · Wildflower
African lilyAgapanthus praecox
A long-lived perennial with blue, purple, or white umbels from South Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Garden flower
March LilyAmaryllis belladonna
A pink-flowered bulb from South Africa that blooms on bare stems in late summer
🇿🇦 South Africa and 5 more · Garden flower
Place
Limbe Botanic Garden
Cameroon's main botanical garden with rare plants and historic trails by the ocean
Limbe, 🇨🇲 Cameroon · Botanical garden
Place
Durban Botanic Gardens
Africa's oldest surviving botanical garden in subtropical Durban
Durban, 🇿🇦 South Africa · Botanical garden
Place
Majorelle GardenJardin Majorelle
A vibrant artist’s garden and museum complex in Marrakech, Morocco
Marrakech, 🇲🇦 Morocco · Flower garden
Place
Company's Garden
Cape Town’s historic public garden and heritage park
Cape Town, 🇿🇦 South Africa · Flower garden
Place
Pretoria National Botanical Garden
A 76-hectare botanical garden in eastern Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria, 🇿🇦 South Africa · Botanical garden
Brunsvigia
Bulbous plants with striking pink or red flowers from southern Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower
Darwin’s orchidAngraecum sesquipedale
The Madagascan orchid with a long nectar spur and a famous moth pollinator
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Wildflower
African lilyAgapanthus africanus
Blue-flowered plant from South Africa’s winter rainfall fynbos
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 more · Wildflower
Place
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
A major garden for South Africa’s native plants in Cape Town
Cape Town, 🇿🇦 South Africa · Botanical garden
Ammi majus
A white, lacy-flowered annual from the carrot family, grown for gardens and medicine
🇪🇬 Egypt and 1 more · Wildflower
Crown of thornsEuphorbia milii
A spiny flowering shrub with red, pink, or white bracts, native to Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 5 more · Wildflower
African violetSaintpaulia
A small, velvety-leaved house plant with violet, blue or white flowers from East Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower
Stephanotis
A tropical climber with waxy, fragrant white flowers
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Climber
Cape primroseStreptocarpus
A houseplant with tubular blooms from African mountains and forests
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Wildflower
Crocosmia
Sword-leaved perennials with bright red and orange summer flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 more · Garden flower
Barberton daisyGerbera jamesonii
The bright daisy from South Africa, ancestor of all cultivated gerberas
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Wildflower
Zonal geraniumPelargonium × hortorum
The classic potted and bedding plant with rounded leaves and ball-shaped flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Garden flower
Sweet alyssumLobularia maritima
A low, honey-scented flower for gardens and coastal groundcover
🇨🇻 Cape Verde and 2 more · Wildflower
Calla lilyZantedeschia
Showy funnel-shaped flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide as ornamentals
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Desert roseAdenium obesum
A succulent shrub with bright pink to red flowers and a swollen base
🇲🇷 Mauritania and 7 more · Wildflower
Cape leadwortPlumbago auriculata
A climbing shrub with blue or white flowers from southern Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Wildflower
Adey abebaBidens macroptera
The yellow eight-petalled flower of Ethiopia’s New Year
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Wildflower
Agapanthus
Blue to white summer flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide in gardens
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Protea magnifica
A mountain shrub from South Africa with large, showy flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Protea afra
A variable shrub or small tree with pink to red flower heads from southern Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa and 6 more · Wildflower
Protea roupelliae
A small tree or shrub from southern Africa with striking flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 more · Wildflower
Red pincushion-proteaLeucospermum cordifolium
A South African shrub with bright, pincushion-like flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Rocket pincushionLeucospermum reflexum
A South African shrub with striking orange or yellow downward-curving flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Nerine bowdenii
A pink autumn-flowering bulb from South Africa, often called Cornish or Guernsey lily
🇿🇦 South Africa · Garden flower
Hardy swamplilyCrinum bulbispermum
A pink, white or red lily from southern Africa, grown for its showy, scented flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Garden flower
Ivy-leaved geraniumPelargonium peltatum
A trailing plant with fleshy, lobed leaves and pale mauve to pink flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Place
KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden
A historic botanical garden in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Pietermaritzburg, 🇿🇦 South Africa · Botanical garden
Stephanotis floribunda
A tropical vine with clusters of fragrant white, waxy flowers from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Climber
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden: I created this image. JMK ( talk ) 20:11, 22 June 2011 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Victoria Botanical Gardens: A.Savin, FAL, source
- Royal poinciana: Averette, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Red Disa: Michael Gäbler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Arabian coffee: Marcelo Corrêa, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lampranthus: Bilby, CC BY 3.0, source
- Protea neriifolia: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5, source
- African lily: Craig Franklin, CC BY-SA 3.0 au, source
- March Lily: Discott, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Limbe Botanic Garden: Mopao2017, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Durban Botanic Gardens: Purves, M. ( Michaelwild at en.wikipedia ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Majorelle Garden: Viault, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Company's Garden: Jorge Lascar, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Pretoria National Botanical Garden: JMK, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Brunsvigia: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Darwin’s orchid: No machine-readable author provided. Jeffdelonge assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- African lily: Nick Helme, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Didier B ( Sam67fr ), CC BY 2.5, source
- Ammi majus: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crown of thorns: Ezra Katz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- African violet: Kor!An (Корзун Андрей), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stephanotis: Lenore Edman, CC BY 2.0, source
- Cape primrose: Nzfauna, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocosmia: Brocken Inaglory ( Brocken Inaglory ) at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Barberton daisy: Rooivos, Public domain, source
- Zonal geranium: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sweet alyssum: Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Calla lily: Octagon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Desert rose: ZSM, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cape leadwort: ErgoSum88, Public domain, source
- Adey abeba: (c) Luke Lythgoe, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0, source
- Agapanthus: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Protea magnifica: Dinkum, CC0, source
- Protea afra: Paul venter, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Protea roupelliae: Dwergenpaartje, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Red pincushion-protea: Cs california, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rocket pincushion: No machine-readable author provided. Andrew massyn~commonswiki assumed, Public domain, source
- Nerine bowdenii: Cillas, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Hardy swamplily: C T Johansson, CC BY 3.0, source
- Ivy-leaved geranium: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0, source