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Raphia farinifera is a tropical African palm tree occurring in lowland riparian and swamp forest, also around human habitations and cultivated locations, on stream banks and other moist situations at altitudes of 50–1000 m. [1]
Raffia palms are members of the genus Raphia. The Malagasy name rafia is derived from fia "to squeeze juice ". [ 2 ] The genus contains about twenty species of palms native to tropical regions of Africa, and especially Madagascar , with one species ( R. taedigera ) also occurring in Central and South America. [ 1 ]
Raphia: raphia palm trees; Raphia farinifera: raffia palm Arecaceae (palm family) Ravenea: ravenea palm trees; Ravenea rivularis: majesty palm Arecaceae (palm family) Rhapis: rhapis palm trees; Rhapis excelsa: lady palm Arecaceae (palm family) Rhapis humilis: slender lady palm Arecaceae (palm family) Rhopalostylis: rhopalostylis palm trees ...
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More than a hundred plants used locally and commercially were described at the end of the 19th century by the English naturalist Richard Baron. These included many timber trees such as native ebony and rosewood species, the raffia palm Raphia farinifera used for fibre, dyeing plants, as well as medicinal and edible plants. [56]
Foliage of the Silvertree (Leucadendron argenteum)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.
Lavushi Manda National Park is a national park in the Muchinga Province of Zambia [1] with an area of 1,500 sq km. [2] It is the 11th largest of the 20 National Parks in Zambia. [3]
Benjamin Balansa. Gaspard Joseph Benedict Balansa, also known as Benjamin Balansa or Benedict Balansa (25 March 1825 – 2 November 1891), was a French botanist.. Born in Narbonne in 1825, Balansa made numerous collecting trips for the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris which holds most of his plant specimens.