"in the Southern African region, 467 species are indigenous and 65 percent are endemic. This is almost three times as many orchids than those that occur in Europe. ... Our indigenous orchids grow in a wide variety of different habitats including savanna, bushveld, karoo scrub, grassland thorn scrub and fynbos. As in many other plant groups, such as fynbos, the Western Cape is where most of the variety of species occur...
websites... used to gather information for this column: www.orchidspaper.com and www.plantzafrica.com " URL : http://www.dispatch.co.za/2007/10/13/Features/f1.html ************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
