South African customs officials recently became suspicious when they noticed that shipments of "Made in China" children's toys were being sent, oddly, back to China. On closer inspection, the packages ...

Considering that it contains hundreds of species, it’s not surprising the genus Crassula is diverse. The most famous of these largely South African succulents is jade plant (Crassula ovata), but many ...

Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches over a gravelly Richtersveld moonscape, a desert that straddles the South ...

SEATTLE — Some of the most interesting houseplants are succulents that come from South Africa. Some of my favorites are Lithops or living stones, small succulent plants that look like stones so birds ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot northern part of their range. Mongabay ...

South Africa's Fynbos and Succulent Karoo Biomes are hotspots of monkey beetle diversity. These beetles are important pollinators of endemic flowers in South Africa and play an important role in ...