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Rodney and Rachel Saunders were British botanists and horticulturalists who established Silverhill Seeds in Cape Town in the 1970s. They collected and studied rare specimens of South African plants such as Gladioli. They were murdered in 2018 while on an expedition in the oNgoye Forest. They were aged 74 and 63 respectively.
In 2018, South Africa produced 19.3 million tonnes of sugarcane (14th largest producer in the world), 12.5 million tonnes of maize (12th largest producer in the world) 1.9 million tons of grape (11th largest producer in the world), 1.7 million tons of orange (11th largest producer in the world) and 397 thousand tons of pear (7th largest producer in the world).
Park Seed Company is an American mail-order and eCommerce seed company based in Greenwood, South Carolina founded in 1868. Park Seed specializes in garden seeds, offering more than 1,100 varieties of flower, vegetable, and herb seeds, plus a large selection of bulbs , live plants, and gardening accessories.
DLF Seeds A/S (formerly DLF-TRIFOLIUM A/S) is a global seed company dealing in forage, amenity seeds, sugar, beet seed, ware potatoes, and other crops. The company's headquarters is located in Roskilde, Denmark. DLF is the global market leader and provides grass and clover seeds to over 100 countries. [1]
23,420 species of vascular plant have been recorded in South Africa, making it the sixth most species-rich country in the world and the most species-rich country on the African continent. Of these, 153 species are considered to be threatened. [3]
List of cycads of South Africa – Seed producing vascular plants of the division Cycadophyta recorded from South Africa; Lists of flowering plants of South Africa – List of lists of flowering plants recorded from South Africa; List of hornworts of South Africa – Non-vascular spore-bearing plants in the division Anthocerotophyta recorded ...
Home to the greatest non-tropical concentration of higher plant species in the world, the region is the only hotspot that encompasses an entire floral kingdom, and holds five of South Africa's 12 endemic plant families and 160 endemic genera.
List of cycads of South Africa – Seed producing vascular plants of the division Cycadophyta recorded from South Africa; List of hornworts of South Africa – Non-vascular spore-bearing plants in the division Anthocerotophyta recorded from South Africa; List of liverworts of South Africa – Non-vascular land plants with a gametophyte-dominant ...