fynbos

fynbos puhekieltä Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom made up chiefly of Proteaceae, restios and Ericaceae.
1992, Reader's Digest, The Great South African Outdoors

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.