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fynbos | ericoid |
(botany) Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of proteaceae, restios and Ericaceae.
* 1992 , Reader's Digest, The Great South African Outdoors
Of or pertaining to plants of the genus Erica
Of plant leaves, small, often leathery, usually needle-like or scale-like, non-deciduous, and generally adapted to poor soils and arid conditions, such as in fynbos and maquis.
Of plant habit, having ericoid leaves, slender, scrubby and woody, like many Erica species.
As a noun fynbos
is (botany) vegetation unique to the cape floral kingdom made up chiefly of proteaceae, restios and ericaceae.As an adjective ericoid is
of or pertaining to plants of the genus erica .fynbos
English
Noun
(-)- The southern and western Cape is the home of a unique type of vegitation known as fynbos'. Covering around 90 000 square kilometers of often harsh terrain, ' fynbos is made up of approximately 6 000 different plant species.