The Cape Fynbos is a wonder of the world.


	The Cape Fynbos is a wonder of the world.

michellezm

5-23-2007 5:18 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ffae3038-af44-477b-9b03-33f86a128f3c/B4CE5456-319E-4BE7-BAA1-063B906369EC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.encounter.co.za/article/38.html" href="http://www.encounter.co.za/article/38.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.encounter.co.za</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.encounter.co.za/article/38.html"><FONT size="+1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Univers,Zurich BT">FYNBOS</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.encounter.co.za/article/38.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.encounter.co.za/img/0A398D5F-771C-45C3-AD16-D65B2820AEA4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.encounter.co.za/article/38.html"><DIV>The Cape Fynbos is a wonder of the world. It is the term
given to a collection of plants (a vegetation type) that are mainly shrubs and is
comprised of species belonging to South Africa's southwestern and southern Cape. Fynbos
makes up four-fifths of the Cape Floral Kingdom, which covers an area of less than 90 000
square kilometres (the size of Malawi or Portugal) and hosts 8 600 plant species. To put
this in perspective, the British Isles, three and a half times larger, have only 1 500
plants and less than 20 of those are endemic. Table Mountain alone has almost 1 500
species in 57 square kilometres.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.encounter.co.za/article/38.html">
So special is the Cape Floral Kingdom that it has been designated as one of the earth's
six plant kingdoms,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.encounter.co.za/article/38.html"><DIV>The Cape Floral Kingdom
contains 526 of the world's 740 erica species, 96 out of the world's 160 gladiolus species
and 69 proteas out of 112 on earth. </DIV>
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