Flora

The native vegetation of South Africa varies from a region to another one following the precipitation index. In the Eastern Lowveld, where rain is of torrential character, are tropical forests in which a great amount of palms exists; throughout the southern coast of this region there are forests formed by species of hard wood trees like the cedar. In the Uplands Eastern, the ground supports to an ebullient growth of grass and isolate trees.

Most of the plateau is covered by formation grasses that in the High Veld resemble themselves prairies deprived of trees; nevertheless, the prairie of Veld Under is looked more like the savannah, with dispersed trees and shrubs. In the Average Veld, where the precipitations are little, the prairie is very poor; the vegetation consists of vast formation grasses characteristic of the desert that grow as a bushes and that only become green with rain. The Small Karroo is covered by weeds.