Flora & Fauna of Lumo Conservancy
ADENIUM OBESUM (Arrow Poison Tree)
- They have colourful flower but poisonous
- They produce clear fluids/sap and used by locals to make arrow poison
- They blossom even during the dry season.
- They have no leaves and small flowers
- They have succulent green stems and branches
- They produce milk latex which is very poisonous
- Propagation is through stem cuttings
- Medium sized tree one of the tallest of all the trees
- Sheds all the leaves and the fruit pods are brown reddish in colour and numerous
- Umbrella acacia, most of the animals spend the hot period under the shade leaving dung
- The canopy helps reduce the torrential/rain speed and the water flows on the branches to the base
- The pods are very nutritious and feed on by many antelopes which helps to disburse them
- Beautiful blue flowers, violet blue, yellow
- Perennial flower, during the rainy season
- Pioneer species
- The most spread indigenous invasive species
- Yellow fruits which feed on by many herbivores
- Spiny shrubs and the thorns are all green
- Fruits is round and yellow pale red and mildly poisonous to human and may cause fever or diarrhoea
- Sandpaper trees. Leaves are rough and are used to smoothen the walking sticks
- Can do nail with them.
- Wood is hard can be used for house framing
- Ever green leaves and succulent
- Zanzibar gem
- Hock thorns. Wait a bit acacia
- Thorny deciduous Tree
LIST OF FLORA
- ERYTHYRINA BUNEI
- GARDENIA OBUSTIFOLIA
- COMMIPHORA AFRICANA
- ZIZIPHUS MUCRONATA
- ZANTHOZYLUM CHALYBEUM
- ERYTHROCOCCA BONGENSIS
- RUTTYA FRUTICOSA
- ASPILIA PLURISETA
- ALBIZIA ANTHELMINTICA
- CRINIUM MACOWANI
- SCADOXUS MULTILORUS
- ACACIA MILIFERRA
- ADANSONIA DIGITATA
- ALOE VERA
- EUCLEA DIVINORUM
- GLORIOSA SUPERBA
- ADENIA GLOBOSA
- SANSEVIERIA AFRICANA
- CENTEMOPSIS GRACELENTA
- HYPOESTES FORSKAOHLI
- AZADARACHTA INDICA
- KALANCHOE TOMENTOSA
- BLEFARIS CILIARIS
- BIDEN PILOSA
- MELLIA VOLKENSII
- PLENCRANTHUS BARBATUS
- MADAGASCAR PERIWINKLE
- OCIMMUM GRATISIMUM
- OCIMUM AMERICANUM
- COMMIPHORA ORISIANA
- LEONOTIS MOLLISIMA
- LEONOTIS NEPETIFOLIA
- SANSEVIERA PEARSONI
- CADABA FERINOSA
- GREWIA BICOLOR
- GREWIA VILLOSA
- GREWIA SIMILIS
- FICUS SYCOMORUS
- LANEA ELIATOR
- COMMELINNA BEGHALENSIS
- COMMELINNA FORSKELAI
- ACCACIA ELIATOR
- MAERU CLAUCA
- ASPHARAGUS ASHIETIKER
- TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS
- PORTULACA OLERACEA
- EUPHORBIA KIBWEZIENSIS
- EUPHORBIA TIRUCALLI
- EUPHORBIA HETEROCHROMA
- DELONIX ELATOR
- ACACIA DREPANOLOBIUM
- BOSCIA ALBITRUNCA
- PUPALIA LAPPACEA
- OXALIS OXALIDACEA
- CAPARIS TOMENTOSA
- ACACIA XANTHOPHLOEA
- LANNEA STELEMANE
- CORDIA SINENSIS
- CORDIA MONICA
- CORDIA GORZEI
- ALOE FEROX
- ALOE VERA
- ASCLRPIA FRUITCOSA
- ACACIA REFICIENS
- XIMENA AMERICANA
- JUSTICIA FLAVA
- HELITROPIUM STEUDNERI
- IPOMEA KITUENSIS
- IPOMEA JAEGERI
- EUPHORBIA CUNEATTA
- SERICOMOSIS PALLIDA
- MAERU LINALEAVES
- CRINIUM MACOWANI
- SCADOXUS MULTIFLORIUS
LIST OF FAUNA
- MELANISTIC SERVAL CAT
- NORMAL SERVAL CAT
- KLIPSPRINGER
- SUNI
- RED DUIKER
- AFRICAN WILD CAT
- BAT EARED FOX
- CIVET CAT
- GENET CAT
- AARDWOLF
- AARDVARK
- ELEPHANTS
- LIONS
- CHEETAHS
- LEOPARD
- KONGONI
- CAPE BUFFALOES
- COMMON ZEBRAS
- MAASAI GIRAFFES
- WILDBEAST
- ELANDS
- LESSER KUDU
- IMPALA
- GRANTS GAZELLES
- WILDBEAST
- YELLOW HEADED AGAMA
- FRINGED EARED ORYX
- BUSHBUCK
- COMMON WATER BUCK
- YELLOW BABOON
- SYKE MONKEY
- VERVET MONKEY
- STRIPED HYENA
- WHITE TAILED MONGOOSE
- COMMON SLENDER MONGOOSE
- HONEY BADGERS
- SPORTED HYENA
- SILVER BACKED JARCALS
- BAT EARED FOX
- BUSH BABY
- SPORTED GREEN HOUSE SNAKE
- PUFF ADDER
- SPITTING COBRA
- BLACK MAMBA
- GREEN MAMBA
- MONITOR LIZARD
- NILE MONITOR
- GREAT PLATED LIZARD
- GECKO
- RED BEAKED SNAKE