Red mangrove is the commonest and most important species of the Mangrove family found in Kenya. To backtrack a bit, the term ‘mangrove’ is a unique assembly of unrelated plants which are specifically adapted to life in the mud of tidal estuaries and lagoons.
Blog Category: Greendic
Rhizophora Mucronata | Walking on Water
Adansonia Digitata...Surviving in a Digital World
The Baobab tree or Mbuyu as it is known in Swahili is a striking deciduous tree of immense girth which can grow up to 25m in height, bare of leaves for as much as 9 months of the year.
Casuarina or Casuarina Equisetifolia...Whichever one you please!
It's been a long time coming but our first tree is the Casuarina which always reminds me of my upcountry home and weaver birds.
Introducing GreenDic...Straight from the Heart
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
¬¬¬Gerald Manley Hopkins
