Congo Tree And Vegetation Species

[Rick Santos]

Could somebody tell me the various tropical tree species you would find in the Congo in Africa? For example the low lying seal level areas of Equatorial Guinea etc.?

I am very curious what kinds of tropical trees grow there and other species of vegetation ? The trees in particular look really beautiful. I am not knowledgeable on this particular area at all. I am looking to educate myself.

Thanks.

[aussiearoids]

wow big ask , only about 10, 000 different trees there .

[Rick Santos]

Perhaps some of them, then. LOL !

[redant]

You mean trees like this.

[Jeff Searle]

You mean trees like this.

Hey look, it's Bruce!

[Moose]

Rick - perhaps Jerry@TreeZoo will chime in and help.

Bruce may be a big stump head

[aussiearoids]

Not exactly from the Congo .. hope Dean does not mind .. but I have one of these trees and I take this pic down to show it .. remind it what it should grow up and look like .. Anthocleista grandiflora .

Another nice looking sp. is this small Costus mosaicus .. only approx 1m .

[Moose]

Could somebody tell me the various tropical tree species you would find in the Congo in Africa? For example the low lying seal level areas of Equatorial Guinea etc.?

I am very curious what kinds of tropical trees grow there and other species of vegetation ? The trees in particular look really beautiful. I am not knowledgeable on this particular area at all. I am looking to educate myself.

Thanks.

Rick - I looked in The Tropical Look by Bob Riffle. While finding no specific tree listed as "from the congo", this list is of trees or tree-like shrubs from Africa that you may find in cultivation.

Acacia abyssinica – Ethiopia

Acacia albida – Tropical Africa

Acacia giraffe – Tropical Africa

Adansonia digitata – Tropical Africa

Adenium obesum – SE Africa

Aeonium arboretum – North Africa

Alstonia scholaris – Tropical Africa

Amphiblemma cymosum – Tropical West Africa

Andira inermis –Tropical Africa

Asystasia gangetica –Tropical Africa

Avicennia nitida – West Africa

Bauhinia punctata – Tropical Africa

Bauhinia tomentosa – Tropical Africa

Carissa edulis – Tropical East Africa

Carissa macrocarpa – Tropical Africa

Cassia didymobotrya – Tropical East Africa

Clerodendrum splendens – West Tropical Africa

Clerodendrum ugandense – Tropical Africa

Colvillea racemosa – Tropical East Africa

Cryptostegia grandiflora – Tropical East Africa

Dombeya acutangula – Tropical East Africa

Dombeya burgessiae – Tropical East Africa

Dombeya spectabilis – South Africa

Dombeya tiliacea – South Africa

Dombeya wallichii – Tropical East Africa

Dracaena arborea – Tropical West Africa

Dracaena deremensis – Tropical West Africa

Dracaena fragrans – Ivory Coast, West Africa

Dracaena goldicana – Tropical West Africa

Dracaena sanderiana – Tropical West & Central Africa

Ensete ventricosum - Tropical East Africa

Erythrina abyssinica - Tropical East Africa

Erythrina caffra - East South Africa

Erythrina fusca - Tropical Africa

Erythrina humeana - East South Africa

Erythrina variegata - Tropical East Africa

Eugenia coronate - Tropical East Africa

Euphorbia abyssinica – Ethiopia

Euphorbia angularis – South Africa

Euphorbia canariensis – NW Coast Africa

Euphorbia candelabrum –East South Africa

Euphorbia cooperi – South Africa

Euphorbia dawei – Uganda, Africa

Euphorbia excelsa – South Africa

Euphorbia grandidens – South Africa

Euphorbia ingens – Tropical East Africa

Euphorbia robecchii – Kenya

Euphorbia tetragona – South Africa

Euphorbia tirucalli – Uganda, Zaire

Garcinia livingstonei – Zaire, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique

Gardenia imperialis – Tropical West Africa

Gardenia spatulifolia – Mozambique

Gardenia thunbergia – South East Africa

Harpephyllum caffra – South Africa

Kigelia africana – Tropical East & Central Africa

Laguncularia racemosa – Tropical West Africa

Markhamia lutea – Tropical Central & West Africa

Markhamia obtusifolia – Tropical Africa

Monodora myristica – Tropical Africa

Moringa oleifera – Tropical Africa

Musa acuminata – Tropical East Africa

Mussaenda – Tropical West Africa

Ochna serrulata – South Africa

Oncoba kraussiana – South Africa

Oncoba spinosa –Tropical East & Central Africa

Portulacaria afra – South Africa

Quercus suber – North Africa

Rhizophora mangle – Tropical West Africa

Ricinus communis – Tropical Africa

Solanum giganteum – Tropical East Africa

Solanum marginatum - Ethopia

Spathodea campanulata – Tropical Central Africa

Synadeniu grantii – Tropical East Africa