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Cover of a March 1959 issue

Flowering Plants of Africa is a series of illustrated botanical magazines akin to Curtis's Botanical Magazine, initiated as Flowering Plants of South Africa by I. B. Pole-Evans in 1920 and currently published by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in Pretoria. The magazine depicts and describes flowering plants from Africa and its neighbouring islands.

Notable botanical artists who have contributed to its pages include Gillian Condy, Fay Anderson, Auriol Batten, Rosemary Holcroft, Betty Connell, Cythna Letty (who was responsible for over 700 plates), Barbara Pike and Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst. The numbers are printed in soft cover measuring 250 x 190 mm.

The series was edited by Robert Allen Dyer who was succeeded by L. E. W. Codd.

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