Palm trees: 170 species exist in Madagascar, of which more than 97% are endemic. Everything is used in the palm tree: fruits, leaves, heart ...
Palm trees: 170 species exist in Madagascar, of which more than 97% are endemic. Everything is used in the palm tree: fruits, leaves, heart ...
Mangrove: An amphibian forest where mangroves grow strongly. Typical vegetation of estuaries and deltas of western Madagascar. We can also find this particular symbiosis between fresh and salt water. Depending on the salinity, the flora is different.
Lemurs: primate species endemic to Madagascar, home to thirty species. Today, they are receding more and more in forests or elsewhere in the mountains, fleeing the proximity of humans. Let us denounce here in passing, the concerns of certain NGOs that under cover programs of preservations of the species threaten them directly.
Medicinal plants: they form the Malagasy pharmacopoeia, so denigrated during the first civilizing colonial period. Much of the ancestral knowledge and practice has been lost. Today, the Malagasy queue in front of the dispensaries of NGOs to obtain expired medicines coming from Europe or they buy "paracetamol" at the neighborhood gargote, the slightest health problem.
Ravinala or "tree of travelers": this tree is the emblem of many Malagasy societies. It is typical of the eastern tropical rain forest. Some claim that it is part of the banana family, which is part of the herbs in the botanical classification.
Succulents: These are plants that have changed their metabolism and organs to resist drought, creating thorns, reducing or hardening leaves. Others store by swelling their trunks, roots, stems ...