South African Fynbos (fine bush) is rightly regarded as one of the world's unique floral kingdoms. Fynbos is the major vegetation type of the small botanical region known as the Cape Floral Kingdom. Only five other floral kingdoms are recognised in the world, and these cover huge areas such as the whole of Australia and most of the northern hemisphere.

The Cape Floral Kingdom is both the smallest and the richest of the six floral kingdoms. Nowhere else on earth are so many plant species concentrated in such a small area. Table Mountain is home to approximately 1470 species of plants - more than the entire British Isles!

“The Cape Floral Kingdom is both the smallest and the richest of the six floral kingdoms.”

Cape Fynbos covers an area less than 90,000 square kilometers and hosts 8,600 species of plants, 300% richer than it’s nearest rival, the South American rain forest. An astonishing 5,000 of these do not occur anywhere else in the world and many are extremely rare and in danger of extinction.

Covering the magnificent mountains, valleys and coastal plains of South Africa's south western Cape, Fynbos comes from the Dutch word for fine-leaved plants. Fynbos is most renowned for its magnificent Proteas, Cape Reeds, Ericas (heaths), Daisy families, Disas and Irises.