South Africa's succulents - small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas - are sought after by an increasingly ...

Near the southern tip of South Africa, Grootbos Private Nature Reserve protects 8,600 acres of “fynbos,” a carpet of endemic plants and flowers so multifarious that the UNESCO World Heritage ...

says South Africa’s Succulent Karoo, the Clivia mirabilis, is one of the country’s most treasured plants. However, it is rapidly disappearing due to poaching, its numbers dropping by 80% in ...