About the LaB factsheets

Welcome to the Learning about Biodiversity (LaB) pages of Veld & Flora, the journal of the Botanical Society of South Africa (BotSoc). In each issue of Veld & Flora, the centrespread contains information for FET teachers on various topics that form part of the FET Curriculum and guides teachers to relevant articles in current and back issues of Veld & Flora.
Click on the covers of Veld & Flora in the right hand column to learn more about the topics and download the LaB pages - and other relevant articles.

The LaB factsheets are also available on the BotSoc website.

All 101 volumes of Veld & Flora, the journal of the Botanical Society, are now available online through Sabinet. The latest journals (2008–2014) are only available to Sabinet subscribers but from 1915–2007 they are free online resources. To access the back issues go to http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/veld. To find an issue or article, go to ‘Table of Contents’ a little way down the page, and click on the dropdown arrow next to ‘Archive’. Select and click in the issue you want. Select and click on the article you are interested in. On the right hand side of the screen, click ‘Full text’.