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The Cape Floristic Region has the word flower in its name for a reason. This area of South Africa has some of the highest levels of plant biodiversity in the world!

Most of the plant life in this biodiversity hotspot is part of fynbos-- this is an Afrikaans word describing evergreen shrublands that thrive in the area's rocky, sandy soils. But there is also an enormous diversity of grasses, flowers and bulbs, many of which are endemic to the Cape Floristic Region-- that means they can only be found in this one particular area in the entire world. In fact, in this one tiny space, there are over 9000 species of plants, a whopping 69% of which cannot be found anywhere else on the planet!

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