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Fynbos is the name for the low and sometimes unspectacular vegatation of the Cape.
It does include many flowers but few indigenous trees, and comprises mostly reeds and shrubs.
Fire is an important regenerator of fynbos (provided it is not too frequent).
Atlantic Ocean and coastal fynbos in Cape of Good Hope Reserve - Jul '01
Leucodendron bushes and fynbos in Cape of Good Hope Reserve - Jul '01
Vlakkenberg with flower and view over Hout Bay - Dec '00 to Feb '01
Fynbos in Silvermine Nature Reserve - Feb '00
Silver Tree above Rhodes Memorial on Devil's Peak - Jan '00
Leucodendron Argenteum is a member of the Protea family
Cluster of winter flowering leucodenron - Winter '96
False Bay from Muizenberg Mountain fynbos - Autumn '96
Spring flowers and restionacea in Cape of Good Hope Reserve - Sep '93
Leucospermum and ericas in Silvermine Nature Reserve - Summer '96
Pink heaths on hillside in Harold Porter Gardens - Autumn '96
King Proteas and hillside above Harold Porter Gardens - Dec '95
Fynbos in Robinson pass, Outeniqua mountains - Nov '95
Heamanthus flowers sprouting from burned hillside - Feb/Mar '00
8 weeks after the devastating fires of Jan '00
