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Image number: | 2516 |
Feature : | quiver tree |
Grouping : | desert vegetation |
Discipline : | botany |
Year : | 2009 |
Locality : | Fish River Canyon |
Country : | Namibia |
Region - tribe : | Southern Namibia |
Physiographic region : | Southern Namibia |
Notice : | A single quiver tree looks out over the landscape of south central Namibia. The quiver tree (Aloe dichotoma), locally called the kokerboom, is indigenous to Namibia and South Africa. |
Reference : | Vandecasteele, Ine, 2009 Image 2516. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/fr/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |