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Kirstenbosch is a botanical garden nestled at the eastern foot of Table Mountain in Cape Town. The garden is one of 10 National Botanical Gardens covering five of South Africa's six different biomes and administered by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). Prior to 1 September 2004, the institute was known as the National ...
Having started as a botanical garden, the park currently houses more than 300 species of trees, herbs and shrubs. Plant exhibits include a nursery for medicinal plants, an orchid house, a fern house, a glass house, and a rose garden. [2] The park also includes an aquarium which is the largest revenue generator after the general admission fee.
The KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden is situated along Mayor's Walk, in the western suburbs of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The identification code of the KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden as a member of the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI), as well as the initials of its herbarium is NBGN .
A botanical garden is a place where plants, especially ferns, conifers and flowering plants, are grown and displayed for the purposes of research, conservation, and education. This distinguishes them from parks and pleasure gardens where plants, usually with showy flowers, are grown for public amenity only.
Mbombela, formerly Nelspruit, is a city in northeastern South Africa.It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province. Located on the Crocodile River, the city lies about 110 km (68 mi) by road west of the Mozambique border, 330 km (210 mi) east of Johannesburg and 82 km (51 mi) north of the Eswatini border.
A botanical garden or botanic garden [nb 1] is a garden with a documented collection of living plants for the purpose of scientific research, conservation, display, and education. [1] It is their mandate as a botanical garden that plants are labelled with their botanical names.
Golden Gate Highlands National Park is located in Free State, South Africa, near the Lesotho border.It covers an area of 340 km 2 (130 sq mi). [1] The park's most notable features are its golden, ochre, and orange-hued, deeply eroded sandstone cliffs and outcrops, [2] especially the Brandwag rock. [3]
Polokwane (UK: / ˌ p ɒ l ə ˈ k w ɑː n i /, [2] meaning "Sanctuary" in Northern Sotho [3] [4] [5]), also known as Pietersburg, is the capital city of the Limpopo Province in South Africa. It is the country's largest urban centre north of Gauteng. It was one of the nine host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.