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- noun botany Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of proteaceae,
restios andEricaceae .
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Examples
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While such an animal may find it a lonely existence, the Steenbras Dam, which stretches along the Hottentots Holland mountain range for many kilometres, with its large pine forest plantations and fynbos is an ideal habitat.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Buchu- An herb found in the fine flora called 'fynbos' in the Cape.
Brad Haskel: Chef Peter Tempelhoff: Helping to Spread the Passion Behind the Foods of South Africa Brad Haskel 2011
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Buchu- An herb found in the fine flora called 'fynbos' in the Cape.
Brad Haskel: Chef Peter Tempelhoff: Helping to Spread the Passion Behind the Foods of South Africa Brad Haskel 2011
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Buchu- An herb found in the fine flora called 'fynbos' in the Cape.
Brad Haskel: Chef Peter Tempelhoff: Helping to Spread the Passion Behind the Foods of South Africa Brad Haskel 2011
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The distinctive flora of the Cape Floral Region, comprising 80% of its floristic richness, is a sclerophyllous shrubland known as fynbos (fine bush), a fine-leaved vegetation adapted to both the Mediterranean type of climate and to periodic fires and defined by location or dominant species such as coastal, mountain or grassy or proteoid fynbos.
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Buchu- An herb found in the fine flora called 'fynbos' in the Cape.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Brad Haskel 2011
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While there is game on a few reserves in the Western Cape, the focus there is more on the local flora known as fynbos, said Liesl Brink, spokeswoman for Cape Nature.
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South Africa has limited its capacity to plant more vineyards because it wanted to preserve the unique Cape Floral Kingdom which consists of indigenous "fynbos" (shrubbery) as a critical ecosystem.
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This area in South Africa holds a unique collection of hard-leaved and evergreen shrubs called 'fynbos' and is home to more than 8,000 plant species, around 70 per cent of which are endemic.
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A complex array of 'fynbos', white pepper, black olives and red berries.
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