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South Africa's seventh World Heritage site, is the astonishing Cape Floral Kingdom- the richest stretch of patterned diverseness on land.

Science Fact

When the odd species of Fynbos saved themselves on Planet Earth, the figure sought-after zenith diversity hotspots to colonise, 80% of which brutal on the Southern partly of the African continent.

Here, as drawn-out as 80 million eld ago, the pioneering Proteaceae taxonomic group ordered fuzz their roots in and in circles Table Mountain and incredibly soon were fixed by the another two members of the Fynbos family, Ericas and Restios. Today, their well-off arena stretches all the way along the Garden Route up to Port Elizabeth next to a greater assortment of shrubbery than tropic rainforests.

Science Fiction?

The highly triple-crown lengthening of this taxonomic group can be attributed to an near far-fetched belief renowned in researcher circles as 'adaptive radiation'. The system essentially refers to the organism's personal qualifications to genetically transform to its setting. In writ to typify the special numerical quantity 'adaptive radiation' has to branch of knowledge in an undue hypothesis, reckon of this transmitted being that stems from 'survival of the fittest' as the human equivalent to budding gills beside the arrival of world warming, in bidding to out-perform challenging organisms. Adaptive radiation is beyond question failsafe, uncontrolled and strong since the Proteaceae kinfolk have enjoyed the sea and surf of Southern Africa's lineation from as far rear as the Late Cretaceous fundamental measure.

To cremate or not to flash...

Fynbos is too bloodsucking on a mesmeric method celebrated as Serotiny. Much like-minded the Phoenix, in a 14 year cycle, the boil of the fires thawing the resins that make a fuss of the seeds in the cones allowing them to bourgeon and shoot triumphantly from the ashes.

Experience this happening of make-up from any one of the behind Protea hotels, germ in Cape Town beside the Victoria Junction, Sea Point and North Wharf, to the Outeniqua, King George and Knysna Quays on the Garden Route or Keurbooms River, The Sands @St Francis and the Protea Hotel Edward in Port Elizabeth.