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Not your formalised, controlled, European Botanical garden but a great park resting in the eastern nape if Table Mountain, home to indigenous after indigenous species, like a living museum to the diversity of local plant life.

South Africa supports a huge range of climactic conditions so there is still plenty here to look at without the large international collections most people expect of botanical gardens of this size - something along the lines of 5000 species. It is also arranged in a more user friendly manner, plants being separated into useful or medicinal plants, annuals, cycads, proteas, ericas and scented plants.

Some of the park has been cultivated and gardened while some remains bush, this section creeps up Table Mountain separated by walking trails.

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