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A Floral Kingdom of Fine Bush
Surrounding the city of Cape Town at the most south-western point of Africa is a region hailed as the worlds hottest hotspot for plant diversity and endemism. Nowhere else on Earth are so many indigenous species concentrated in such a small area.
Its name is Cape Floral Region, and though this temperate bushland makes up less than 0.5% of Africa, it is home to nearly 20% of the continents floral diversity. It is also known as the Fynbos, after an ecosystem unique to the region. Fynbos is Afrikaans for fine bush, and the main vegetation is a collection of evergreens, shrubs and small plants with tough, fine leaves and reeds. Covering an area of 90,000 square kilometres, the Fynbos is home to 9,000 different plant species, a third of them found nowhere else on Earth.
Some of the most spectacular of the plants belong to the protea family. The King Protea, South Africas national flower, is also known as the Honeypot or King Sugar Bush because sugarbirds and sunbirds feed on its flowers. The proteas of Cape Floral Region evolved six to eight million years ago, when the climate was cooler than it is today. They are particularly sensitive to warming and climate change.
By 2050, the region may face a temperature rise of about 1.8°C and a dramatic increase in wildfires, which would eliminate up to 30% of the plant species in the Fynbos, many of them indigenous, and destroy the delicately balanced ecology of the region.
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