A massive continent , Africa ’s majuscule diversity of trees fall out south of the Sahara Desert , where rainfall is abundant and temperatures remain warm year - round . Hundreds of tree species can be go through on the most basic of vacations to Africa , from a safari to a walk of life in a large city ’s botanical garden . Many of these trees now grow in parks in other semitropical and tropical region around the world , bedazzle admirers with their architectural silhouettes , pretty blossom and amazing yield .

Jackalberry

Jackalberry ( Diospyros mespiliformus ) , also call African ebony , is found across much of Africa from Senegal and the Sudan to Namibia and South Africa . It is most ordinarily regain on savannas or savannah woodlands where it can be seen growing on termite mounds . Animals such as nyalas , impalas , warthogs , baboon and hornbill eat the fruit of the jackalberry . This tree diagram receive its name because its seeds are also found in the dung of jackals . The tree ’s leave are eaten by elephants , rhinoceros , giraffe , American buffalo and kudus . Jackalberry spring up 80 fundament tall and nearly 50 feet wide with a canopy high up on the marvellous luggage compartment .

Umbrella Thorn

The umbrella prickle ( Acacia tortilis ) is one of the most widely dispense species of acacia tree on the continent . Its aboriginal range strain from Mozambique , Botswana , Swaziland , Transvaal , Orange Free State and the Cape in South Africa on the dry savanna . Seeing this tree diagram tends to reveal areas of beneficial soil and good grass , according to the Kruger National Park website . Thorny branch and copious output of seed pods are characteristic of the umbrella sticker , and the fall seeds are use up by kudu , impala , rhinoceros and elephant . Umbrella thorn has an umbrella - same canopy and grows upwardly of 65 feet tall and 20 to 30 base wide .

Baobab

Slow grow and deciduous , the baobab , or " dead skunk Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree " ( Adansonia digitata ) , becomes an architecturally brilliant tree on the African plains across much of sub - Saharan Africa . The trunk looks like a massive leg of an elephant or extinct dinosaur and its wide branch adulterate out far on the bottle - corresponding trunk as it ages , perhaps over a thousand yr . The white heyday that are pollinated at nighttime by at-bat yield large woody fruits that dangle by a long shank , earn them front like hanging strikebreaker . Baobab trees develop 60 to 70 feet tall and as loosely open as 75 feet .

Marula

Marula ( Scelerocarya birrea ) is a big , around - top deciduous tree diagram growing 50 feet tall and equally wide . The fruits that imprint on the tree are golf game Lucille Ball - sized , gustation like Mangifera indica and are rich in vitamin C. Native from Ethiopia to South Africa , marula is also call in " drunkard ’s plum tree . " Marula liquer and beer are made from the fruit . Warthog , elephant , waterbuck , giraffe and kudu all consume the yield and leaves of the tree .

African Tulip Tree

A large evergreen Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree native to the humid champaign and forests of the exuberant equatorial compass of Africa , African tulip tree ( Spathodea campanulata ) develop 75 feet marvellous and 60 metrical unit full at maturity . It is also called " blast tree " or " Gabon tulip tree . " Fast - grow and shoal - rooted , it displays large flush clustering of vivid orangeness or Au on branch top in spring and summer . Each flower is trumpet- to cup - forge , resembling a tulip flower , and is fill with nectar for birds to engorge . afterwards , long , brown seed ejection seat strain and huntsmen boil the fruit kernel inwardly to incur a poisonous liquid state to lace the tips of hunting pointer , harmonise to Margaret Barwick in " Tropical and Subtropical Trees . "

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