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Engl. [ 1] Zamioculcas is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, containing the single species Zamioculcas zamiifolia. [ 2] It is a tropical herbaceous perennial plant, and is native to eastern Africa, including Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. [ 2] Its common names include Zanzibar gem, ZZ plant ...
The wildlife of Zanzibar consists of terrestrial and marine flora and fauna in the archipelago of Zanzibar, an autonomous region of Tanzania. Its floral vegetation is categorized among the coastal forests of eastern Africa as the Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic and the Northern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic.
Zanzibar–Inhambane scrub forest is a transitional plant community, found in southern Somalia, Kenya, and northern Tanzania at edges of the semi-arid interior Acacia–Commiphora bushlands, with average annual rainfall between 500 and 750 mm. Diospyros cornii is the predominant tree, forming a discontinuous canopy 9 to 15 meters high.
WGSRPD code: TAN ( level 3) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flora of Tanzania. This category contains the native flora of Tanzania as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic.
Zanzibar-Inhambane evergreen and semi-evergreen bushland and thicket; Zanzibar-Inhambane edaphic grassland; Zanzibar-Inhambane secondary grassland and wooded grassland; White (1983) estimated 3000 plant species were native to the region, of which several hundred are endemic. Of 192 native forest trees recorded by White, 90, or nearly half, are ...
Dioscorea sansibarensis is a species of flowering plant in the yam family known by the common name Zanzibar yam. It is native to Madagascar and to tropical Africa from Tanzania west to Guinea and south to Mozambique , [1] and it is known elsewhere as an introduced species (including in southern Florida ).
It lies within the riverine and palustrine wetland ecosystem. Animal life consists of herd of zebras, lions in the grassy vastness, wildebeest, impala, buffalo herds, giraffes, elands, kudu, sable and hippos in water ponds (5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the main entrance gate). Antelope, and elephants are also seen.
The Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park is a 50 km 2 (19 sq mi) national park in Tanzania located on the island of Zanzibar.It is the only national park in Zanzibar. The Zanzibar red colobus, Procolobus kirkii (its population count is about 1000 [2]) found in the park, a rain forest species (unlike the black-and-white colobus found in other regions of Africa), is also known as Kirk's red colobus ...