Mushroom Season at Grootbos
Do you know your mushrooms?
To celebrate the full floral feeling, today's update is all about the wild, unspoilt natural landscape that drives Grootbos Foundation and inspires all those who live within it. Every cleared patch of invasive plants gives indigenous plants a chance to come back to life, restoring balance, one plant at a time. Here follows some beautiful plants which have survived the invasive plants in the area, and reclaimed their place as soon as the invasives are cleared. Aren't they just so resilient and tenacious?



Grootbos Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation in Gansbaai dedicated to conserving the Cape Floral Kingdom while uplifting the communities that call it home. The foundation protects over 22,200 hectares of fynbos and biodiversity across Grootbos Private Nature Reserve and the Walker Bay...
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