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Walkway in the Free State National Botanical Garden. The Free State National Botanical Garden, located just outside Bloemfontein covers 70 hectares, and is home to about 400 species of plants, largely native to Free State and Northern Cape Provinces and Lesotho.
Orange Free State Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein The botanical gardens contains the only remaining karoo vegetation in the vicinity where palaeoclima This botanical garden, which was established in 1967, is of particular scientific and environmental importance.
In 1932 the well known Florisbad human cranium was discovered. In 1980 Florisbad was bought by the South African Government for research purposes and was placed under the administration of the National Museum, Bloemfontein. Freshford is one of the few houses of the Edwardian period that still exists in Bloemfontein. The house was designed and ...
SANBI was established on 1 September 2004 in terms of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, No 10 of 2004. [3] Previously, in 1989, the autonomous statutory National Botanical Institute (NBI) had been formed from the National Botanic Gardens and the Botanical Research Institute, which had been founded in the early 20th century to study and conserve the South African flora.
The North-West University Botanical Garden fulfills many key functions within the North-West University most notably supporting the training of students and research. Even though horticulture is not taught at the North-West University, an internship program funded by AgriSETA was started in 2011 to give young horticulturalists a chance to gain valuable practical experience.
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]
A contemporary botanic garden is a strictly protected green area, where a managing organization creates landscaped gardens and holds documented collections of living plants and/or preserved plant accessions containing functional units of heredity of actual or potential value for purposes such as scientific research, education, public display ...
The Thohoyandou National Botanical Garden is located in the north-east of Limpopo province, South Africa. The garden is the 11th national botanical garden and principally hosts endemic plants from the Soutpansberg region.