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
OleanderNerium oleander
A showy, evergreen shrub with clusters of pink, white or red flowers
🇲🇦 Morocco and 8 more · Flowering shrub
WaterlilyNymphaea
Floating aquatic flowers found in ponds and lakes worldwide
🇪🇬 Egypt and 7 more · Water flower
Pelargonium
A diverse group of flowering plants often grown as garden and house plants
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Arabian coffeeCoffea arabica
The white-flowered shrub whose beans make most of the world’s coffee
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 4 more · Wildflower
Erica
Evergreen shrubs with tiny needle leaves and nodding flowers, known as heaths or heathers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 more · Wildflower
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
A compact succulent with bright winter blooms from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar and 1 more · Garden flower
Nemesia
A group of colourful bedding plants from South Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Sparaxis
Spring-flowering bulbs from South Africa with striking six-petalled blooms
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Eucomis
Bulbous perennials with pineapple-like flower spikes from southern Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa and 5 more · Wildflower
Helichrysum
A large group of daisy-like flowers known for their lasting dried blooms
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Wildflower
Flowering flaxLinum grandiflorum
A red-flowered annual flax from North Africa, grown in gardens worldwide
🇩🇿 Algeria and 1 more · Wildflower
Ornithogalum thyrsoides
A white, long-lasting bulb flower from South Africa’s Cape Province
🇿🇦 South Africa · Bulb flower
Egyptian white water-lilyNymphaea lotus
A night-blooming white water-lily and the national flower of Egypt
🇪🇬 Egypt and 5 more · Water flower
Protea neriifolia
A South African shrub with cone-shaped flower heads and hairy-tipped bracts
🇿🇦 South Africa and 3 more · Wildflower
Silver treeLeucadendron argenteum
A rare South African tree with silky silver leaves and scented pink flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa · Flowering tree
African lilyAgapanthus praecox
A long-lived perennial with blue, purple, or white umbels from South Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Garden flower
Cape aloeAloe ferox
A tall, spiny aloe from southern Africa with orange-red flowers and medicinal uses
🇱🇸 Lesotho · Wildflower
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
Bot River proteaProtea compacta
Pink, bowl-shaped protea from the Cape’s coastal mountains
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Mussaenda erythrophylla
A West African shrub with bright, colourful bracts and star-shaped flowers
🇬🇦 Gabon · Flowering shrub
Gladiolus tristis
A tall, fragrant gladiolus with cream flowers from southern Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Wildflower
Crinum moorei
A tall, fragrant lily from South Africa with white or pale pink blooms
🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 more · Wildflower
Brunsvigia
Bulbous plants with striking pink or red flowers from southern Africa
🇹🇿 Tanzania and 1 more · Wildflower
Babianabobbejaantjie
A group of small, colourful flowering plants from southern Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa and 4 more · Wildflower
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
Guizotia abyssinica
An annual herb grown for its oil-rich seeds and yellow flower heads
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 6 more · Wildflower
MandrinetteHibiscus fragilis
A rare pink hibiscus found only on Mauritius and Rodrigues
🇲🇺 Mauritius · Wildflower
Desert roseAdenium
A succulent with thick stems and bright flowers, grown as a bonsai and houseplant
🇳🇦 Namibia and 7 more · Wildflower
Cyclamen rohlfsianum
A rare autumn-blooming cyclamen found only in Libya
🇱🇾 Libya · Wildflower
Delonix
A genus of tropical trees with claw-shaped petals from Madagascar and East Africa
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Flowering tree
Calotropis procera
A tall, toxic shrub with balloon-like fruit and silky seed fibers
🇦🇴 Angola and 7 more · Wildflower
African lilyAgapanthus africanus
Blue-flowered plant from South Africa’s winter rainfall fynbos
🇿🇦 South Africa and 1 more · Wildflower
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
Tritonia
Strongly scented yellow to brown flowers from southern Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Wildflower
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
Nerine
Bulbous perennials with wavy pink to red flowers from southern Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa and 5 more · Wildflower
Ixia
Star-shaped flowers from the Cape Provinces of South Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Watsonia
Tall, showy corm plants from southern Africa, known as bugle-lilies
🇿🇦 South Africa and 5 more · Wildflower
Strelitzia
Tall South African plants with fan-shaped leaves and striking bird-like blooms
🇿🇦 South Africa · Garden flower
Cape marigoldDimorphotheca
A daisy-like flower native to southern Africa's open landscapes
🇧🇼 Botswana and 5 more · Wildflower
Barberton daisyGerbera jamesonii
The bright daisy from South Africa, ancestor of all cultivated gerberas
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Wildflower
Busy LizzieImpatiens walleriana
A shade-loving garden flower with bright, soft-petalled blooms
🇰🇪 Kenya and 2 more · Garden flower
Zonal geraniumPelargonium × hortorum
The classic potted and bedding plant with rounded leaves and ball-shaped flower heads
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Garden flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pelargonium: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Arabian coffee: Marcelo Corrêa, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kalanchoe blossfeldiana: বাক্যবাগীশ, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nemesia: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sparaxis: Ixitixel, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eucomis: yakovlev.alexey, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Helichrysum: Iorsh at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Flowering flax: Miwasatoshi, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ornithogalum thyrsoides: Winfried Bruenken ( Amrum ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Egyptian white water-lily: Meneerke bloem, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Protea neriifolia: Melburnian, CC BY 2.5, source
- Silver tree: Andrew Massyn, Public domain, source
- African lily: Craig Franklin, CC BY-SA 3.0 au, source
- Cape aloe: iNaturalist.org (Di Turner) (Di%20Turner), CC0, source
- March Lily: Discott, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Waterlily: Ragesoss, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Oleander: Unknown author, CC BY 2.5, source
- Erica: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bot River protea: Andrew Massyn, Public domain, source
- Mussaenda erythrophylla: Tatiana Gerus, CC BY 2.0, source
- Gladiolus tristis: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Crinum moorei: This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves . Feel free to use my pho, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Brunsvigia: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Babiana: Stan Shebs, 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
- Guizotia abyssinica: Silvestresbrasileiros, Public domain, source
- Mandrinette: Mickaël Schauli, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Desert rose: Xocolatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cyclamen rohlfsianum: Mark Griffiths, GFDL, source
- Delonix: Challiyan at ml.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Calotropis procera: Wilfredo Rodríguez, CC0, source
- African lily: Nick Helme, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Tritonia: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cape primrose: Nzfauna, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Crocosmia: Brocken Inaglory ( Brocken Inaglory ) at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Nerine: Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ixia: Vtaylor, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Watsonia: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Strelitzia: Scott Bauer, USDA, Public domain, source
- Cape marigold: Joaquim Alves Gaspar, CC BY 2.5, source
- Barberton daisy: Rooivos, Public domain, source
- Busy Lizzie: Thegreenj, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zonal geranium: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source