Tokai Park, previously known as "Tokai Forest", is a small wing, about 600 ha, of the greater Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. Tokai Park is made up of two sections: upper and lower Tokai Park. Lower Tokai Park is flat, and characterized by the threatened Cape Flats Sand Fynbos. Upper Tokai Park is on the slopes of Constantiaberg Mountain, and consists of conservation area as well as the Tokai Arboretum. Upper Tokai Park is characterized by Peninsula Granite Fynbos, Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos and Afromontane Forest and noted for its diversity.
Tokai Park: a view from lower to upper Tokai Park, with Constantiaberg Mountain in the background.
Tokai Arboretum, Tokai Park
Erica verticillata: extinct in the wild, being reintroduced at Tokai Park
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos
Cape Flats Sand Fynbos (CFSF), previously known as Sand Plain Fynbos, is a critically endangered vegetation type that occurs only within the city of Cape Town. Less than 1% of this unique lowland fynbos vegetation is conserved.
A surviving remnant of Cape Flats Sand Fynbos at Rondebosch Common.
Heath (Erica spp.), cone-bush and restio specimens.
Erica verticillata is completely endemic to Cape Flats Sand Fynbos. However, it is now classed as extinct in the wild.
The Strawberry Spider head (Serruria aemula) is a critically endangered within the Cape Flats Sand Fynbos ecosystem.
