NEWS
Herbarium will identify plants, weeds
G
ot a plant in your
field or a weed in
your garden that you
can't identify? The National
Herbarium in Pretoria offers a
plant identification service.
Plants that can be identified
include all flowering plants,
ferns, cycads, cultivated and
exotic weeds, as well as
mosses and liverworts. The
herbarium will identify all
indigenous and alien invasive
plants, along with some
cultivated plants, provided
that the plant specimen
received is of good enough
quality to enable the study of
DROUGHT were press reports of occaFrom page 8
and food riots as these prices
and shortages kick in, and
already by mid-January there
sional violence among
residents in rural villages
affected by water outages.
In the case of maize meal,