Mozambique Vegetation

Most of Mozambique's vegetation is brachystegia woodland, a type of savannah that covers approximately 70% of the country. Brachystegia is named after the brachystegia genus, a native to tropical Africa known locally as Miombo. Brachystegia appears in many southern African countries, but Mozambique's brachystegia woodlands are much denser and the trees taller than those of its neighbours.

Brachystegia yields the drier parts of the country to mopane woodlands, whose trees are characterised by their butterfly-shaped leaves and fragile seed pods, while the diverse acacia genus occurs in southern Mozambique and among the rivers of the north.

Mozambique's beach vegetation consists of dense scrub-brush and impressive palm groves. The country's floodplains and marshes (particularly the enormous Zambezi delta) are covered with thick alluvial grasslands and stands of borassus palms. The rain forests on the slopes of Mount Gorongosa and the highlands of western Zambezia, and the dry lowland forests of Cabo Delgado and Dondo constitute the very little true forest that exists in Mozambique.

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