This book reveals intriguing details of how plants survive a range of adverse conditions, highlighting extraordinary facets of the plants' reproduction, including intricate relationships with insect pollinators. Illustrated with stunning colour photographs by Colin Paterson-Jones. Some 3000 diverse plant species exist in this unusual landscape, representing a botanical marvel to rival the fynbos of the famed Cape Floral Kingdom.

From dwarf species barely a few millimetres tall to trees several metres high, the range of succulent plants in this seemingly desolate region is unrivalled in both its extent and its variety of forms. Tiny plants that resemble flowering stones dot a plain of quartz; a minute 'garden' fills a rock crevice; an exuberant burst of vygies colours a patch of veld.

published in 1999; 156 pages; cm 31 x 27,5; 1280 g

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