South Africa Landscape - Kew at the British Museum

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Kew and the British Museum have brought a small corner of South Africa to the heart of London. Our South Africa Landscape highlights the rich diversity of plant life from South Africa’s Cape region – an internationally renowned biodiversity hotspot.

South Africa Landscape

Kew's South Africa Landscape at the British Museum

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Kew's South Africa Landscape at the British Museum celebrates the two institutions’ shared vision to strengthen cultural understanding and support biodiversity conservation across the world. Our Landscape makes connections between plants, people and objects on display in the Museum’s African galleries.

South Africa Landscape features African lily (Agapanthus africanus), fynbos heather, daisies such as the blue marguerite (Felicia amelloides) and the 'Star of the Veldt' (Osteospermum hyoseroides), the South African geranium (Pelargonium sidoides) and the Lesotho red hot poker (Kniphofia caulescens), with its bright orange rocket-shaped flowers.

Visitors can walk through the Landscape and get a feeling of the desert and experience tumbled rocks and scree and sand, interspersed with strangely shaped quiver trees (Aloe dichotoma), swathes of spectacular plant colour and an understorey of desert annual and perennial plants.

Reproductions of famous examples of rock art which depict men and animals from well-documented sites in South Africa are incised on to a number of rocks in the Landscape. Find out more at the South Africa Landscape website.

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