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This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. [1] The notion of 'indigenous' is of necessity a blurred concept, and is clearly a function of both time and political boundaries.
It is native to the mesic savannas of Africa south of the equator, from KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, in the south to Tanzania in the north. It is a native tree in South Africa, eSwatini, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Angola, Zambia and Tanzania. It is a protected tree in South Africa. [4]
Trees of Africa — tree species native to the diverse ecoregions of Africa. For the purposes of this category, "Africa" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), namely as one of the nine "botanical continents". See Category:Flora of Africa for a map.
Vachellia erioloba, the camel thorn, also known as the giraffe thorn, mokala tree, or Kameeldoring in Afrikaans, still more commonly known as Acacia erioloba, is a tree of southern Africa in the family Fabaceae. [3] Its preferred habitat is the deep dry sandy soils in parts of South Africa, Botswana, the western areas of Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Myrsine melanophloeos, commonly known as Cape beech, Kaapse boekenhout , isiCalabi or isiQwane sehlati [2] is a dense evergreen tree that is native to the afromontane forests of Africa, ranging from Nigeria and Sudan to South Africa. [1] Outside forests they are also commonly encountered along stream banks and in gullies.
The Tree of Ténéré (French: L'Arbre du Ténéré) was a solitary acacia (Vachellia tortilis subsp. raddiana) [1] [2] [3] that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth. It was a landmark on caravan routes through the Ténéré region of the Sahara Desert in northeast Niger , so well known that it and the Arbre Perdu ( Lost Tree ...
The old rice fields that remain, Wiggers said, create ecological questions for today’s landowners. ... West Africa natives, who had knowledge of rice cultivation, were specifically sought for ...
Dalbergia melanoxylon (African blackwood, grenadilla, or mpingo) in French Granadille d'Afrique is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to seasonally dry regions of Africa from Senegal east to Eritrea, to southern regions of Tanzania to Mozambique and south to the north-eastern parts of South Africa. The tree is an important timber ...