Sprokieswoud, Etosha National Park, Namibia
Sprokieswoud may be roughly translated from the Afrikaans as fairytale wood. This may be the largest moringa forest in the world. Two kilometres square, its otherworldly Moringa ovalifolia trees need to conserve water in the arid climate of the Etosha Pan and this probably accounts for the weird bottle-shaped trunks. The Etosha Pan and its environs are after all an extreme environment -- a 120-km long usually dry lake bed in which any evaporating water leaves a salt deposit behind. The moringas lose their leaves in the arid winter season. From a slide.
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Sprokieswoud, Etosha National Park, Namibia
Sprokieswoud may be roughly translated from the Afrikaans as fairytale wood. This may be the largest moringa forest in the world. Two kilometres square, its otherworldly Moringa ovalifolia trees need to conserve water in the arid climate of the Etosha Pan and this probably accounts for the weird bottle-shaped trunks. The Etosha Pan and its environs are after all an extreme environment -- a 120-km long usually dry lake bed in which any evaporating water leaves a salt deposit behind. The moringas lose their leaves in the arid winter season. From a slide.
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