There are also hints of "fynbos", the natural vegetation on the farm. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A complex array of 'fynbos', white pepper, black olives and red berries. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Knysna fynbos "islands": origins and conservation. From Wordnik.com. [Knysna-Amatole montane forests] Reference
Lowland fynbos and renosterveld - Encyclopedia of Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Montane fynbos and renosterveld - Encyclopedia of Earth. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
At two to four meters, they are the tallest fynbos shrubs. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
The Cape also includes several non-fynbos vegetation types. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Cape Floristic Region] Reference
This is especially true of lowland fynbos and renosterveld. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Thirty such mountain fynbos complexes have been recognized. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Valuation of ecosystem services: A study from South African fynbos. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Cape Floristic Region] Reference
Unlike fynbos, renosterveld lacks restioids, and proteoids are very rare. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Forest species will readily invade neighboring fynbos when fire is excluded. From Wordnik.com. [Knysna-Amatole montane forests] Reference
About 80 percent of the species found in fynbos and renosterveld are endemic. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
About 80 percent of the species complement in fynbos and renosterveld is endemic. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
A juvenile anglulated tortoise (Geochelone pardalis) meanders through Cape fynbos. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Cape Floristic Region] Reference
The explosive speciation of many fynbos lineages has long fascinated Cape botanists. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
A syntaxonomic and synecological study in the Humansdorp region of the fynbos biome. From Wordnik.com. [Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets] Reference
The physiography of the Cape Fold Mountains make them important habitat for fynbos vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
In all, half of the 38 species present in both fynbos and renosterveld ecoregions are endemic. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
The soils of Mount Mulanje are similar to those found in the fynbos regions of the southern Cape. From Wordnik.com. [South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic] Reference
Unlike the degraded lowland regions, montane fynbos and renosterveld is relatively well-preserved. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Both the lowland and montane forms of fynbos and renosterveld share similar biodiversity features. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Ericoids are small-leafed shrubs from 0.5 m to 2 m tall which give fynbos its heathlike appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Small-leaved ericoid shrubs able to obtain soil moisture from deep underground dominate dry fynbos. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
It is replaced by fynbos and succulent karoo at rainfalls higher and lower than this, respectively. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
At rainfalls higher and lower than this, it is replaced by fynbos and succulent karoo, respectively. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Among these four plant types, restioids, evergreen reedlike plants, are uniquely diagnostic of fynbos. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
The predominant vegetation types of this ecoregion, as implied by its name, are fynbos and renosterveld. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Montane fynbos vegetation changes in response to increasing elevation and the aspects of the slope it grows on. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Isolated patches of fynbos within the Knysna forest are thought to have resulted from post-glacial forest expansion. From Wordnik.com. [Knysna-Amatole montane forests] Reference
In the southwestern parts of the country with its Mediterranean climate, plant life consists of mainly fynbos types. From Wordnik.com. [Water profile of South Africa] Reference
Floristically and structurally, the distinction between lowland and montane forms of fynbos and renosterveld is weak. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
There are also fynbos endemics such as the orange-breasted sunbird Nectarinia violacea and Protea canary Serinus leucopterus. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa] Reference
Sand Plain fynbos has the typical fynbos structure, with proteoids in the overstory and an understory of ericoids and restioids. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Limestone fynbos, also with a typical fynbos structure, is associated with the Tertiary limestone habitats of the Agulhas Plain. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
A number of protected areas conserve fynbos vegetation and protect the quality of water collected in this valuable cachement area. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
A tree pincushion (Leucospermum conocarpodendron) near the South African coast is typical of the Cape's exuisite fynbos vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Cape Floristic Region] Reference
The ericoids include many small-leafed shrubs, ranging from 0.5 meters (m) to 2 m tall, which give fynbos its heath-like appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Renosterveld often develops as a result of the degradation of fynbos, through overgrazing or burning at unnaturally short intervals. From Wordnik.com. [Lowland fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
Proteoid fynbos (fynbos with a high cover of proteoid shrubs) is commonly found on the deep and fertile soils at the base of mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Montane fynbos and renosterveld] Reference
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