Did you know that Fynbos has 1200 types of flowering plants? It’s not just vygies that bring colour to the landscape, there are lots of little flower festivals bustling to show you their blooms, and if you’re lucky, the veldt flowers will also make an appearance. Clanwilliam Wild Flower Show (26 August -31 August 2011): [...]
The tough, nutrient-poor leaves of fynbos are indigestible to most animals, apart from some highly adapted browsers like klipspringer and grysbok. Tortoises are probably the best adapted nibblers, as they can eat plants that are not only unpalatable, but are positively poisonous to other animals. To counteract these clever adaptations by animals, many plants have [...]