South Africa’s succulents – small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses ... Some species are now functionally extinct in the wild. This means their populations are too small ...

"In South Africa, we know already of seven species ... syndicates who hire teams of plant poachers and then market the wild plants on social media and e-commerce platforms. "The syndicates saw ...

Durban — An assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN Red List) has revealed a collapse of South Africa’s wild succulent plant ...

The plants grow in a harsh desert environment in South Africa, with only a short rainy season in which to produce flowers, get pollinated, and set seed before they die. This creates intense ...

Last year was an eye-opening year for me when it came to Jamesbrittenia, a genus of plants with about 83 species mostly from South Africa, Sudan, and Egypt. James Britten, for whom the plant genus ...

South Africa's succulents - small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses ... Some species are now functionally extinct in the wild. This means their populations are too small for ...