From alien quiver tree forests to seabird islands and hidden caves, discover South Africa’s most surreal natural oddities.

There’s a very long and delicious word that best describes a quiver tree forest: phantasmagorical. These giant succulent tree aloes look like the backdrop for a dark and stormy Tim Burton movie, with ...

This started after they were awarded the project under the Renewable Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Program. The site is currently under construction – and once it reaches ...

This shot of quiver trees in drought-stricken hills in Namibia won the Individuals and Populations (Plants and Fungi) category. “Although this landscape seems dominated by singular quiver trees, the ...

Botany professor emeritus Timm Hoffman and his colleagues are seeing eddies of dune sand piling up around quiver trees at study sites in northwestern South Africa. Hoffman has been studying the iconic ...