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
Place
KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden
A historic botanical garden in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Pietermaritzburg, 🇿🇦 South Africa · Botanical garden
Place
Victoria Botanical Gardens
A 15-acre botanical garden in Victoria, Mahé, focused on Seychelles' native plants
Victoria, 🇸🇨 Seychelles · Botanical garden
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
A compact succulent with bright winter blooms from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 1 more · Garden flower
Protea neriifolia
A South African shrub with cone-shaped flower heads and hairy-tipped bracts
🇿🇦 South Africa and 3 more · Wildflower
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
Bot River proteaProtea compacta
Pink, bowl-shaped protea from the Cape’s coastal mountains
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Place
Pretoria National Botanical Garden
A 76-hectare botanical garden in eastern Pretoria, South Africa
Pretoria, 🇿🇦 South Africa · Botanical garden
Adenium boehmianum
A toxic succulent from arid parts of Namibia and Angola
🇳🇦 Namibia and 1 more · Wildflower
Darwin’s orchidAngraecum sesquipedale
The Madagascan orchid with a long nectar spur and a famous moth pollinator
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Wildflower
Place
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
A major garden for South Africa’s native plants in Cape Town
Cape Town, 🇿🇦 South Africa · Botanical garden
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
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
Iris unguicularis
A winter-blooming iris with lilac or purple flowers and evergreen leaves
🇩🇿 Algeria and 4 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
LeekAllium ampeloprasum
A mild-flavoured onion relative and Welsh emblem with edible leaf sheaths
🇪🇬 Egypt and 7 more · Herb or useful flower
Candelabra aloeAloe arborescens
A large, branching aloe with red-orange flowers and spiky green leaves
🇿🇦 South Africa and 8 more · Wildflower
Ivy-leaved geraniumPelargonium peltatum
A trailing plant with fleshy, lobed leaves and pale mauve to pink flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
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
- Kalanchoe blossfeldiana: বাক্যবাগীশ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Protea neriifolia: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5, 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
- Bot River protea: Andrew Massyn, Public domain, source
- Pretoria National Botanical Garden: JMK, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Adenium boehmianum: Hans Hillewaert, 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
- Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Didier B ( Sam67fr ), CC BY 2.5, source
- Crown of thorns: Ezra Katz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- African violet: Kor!An (Корзун Андрей), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Calla lily: Octagon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Desert rose: ZSM, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Iris unguicularis: Magnus Manske, 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
- Leek: WikiLucas00, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Candelabra aloe: Ton Rulkens, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Ivy-leaved geranium: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0, source