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Revised Dupoto Flora List

Category: Life of a Vet, Maasai People | Date: Oct 09 2007 | By: admin

Here is revised version of Dupoto Forest Flora list!

Botanical List
1. Tricocladus ellipticus—White witch hazel –Olmarashirashi
2. Teclea nobilis— Small-fruited Teclea -food plant for Papilio dardanus cenea (Mocker Swallowtail) — Olgilai
3. Teclea tricocarpa— Furry-fruited Teclea — Entoriroi
4. Warbugia ugandensis— East African green-heart or pepper-bark tree— Ol-msogoni
5. Manilkara butagi— Common name??— Olairrenyi
6. Diospros abbysinnica— Giant Diospyros or Giant Ebony (Persimmon)— Olchartuyian
7. Olea africana— African Olive— Olfamiyioi
8. Olea capensis— Ironwood — Olalui
9. Ficus thoningi— Strangler Fig — Oreteti
10. Euclea divinorum— Magic guarri — Olkinyei
11. Rhus natalensis— Desert Date — Olmisigiyioi
12. Elaeodendron buchanani— Common name?? — Osoket
13. Rawsonia lucidia— Forest Peach — Olmolongwa
14. Cassia didimotobia— Common name?? — Olchasimpol

3 Responses to “Revised Dupoto Flora List”

F. J. PECHIR, on 09 Oct 2007

Hi there Asuka!! Thank you for this revised flora list. Your work as a vet is very important in a place like that, maybe you are the only one that is helping domestic animals in the area; but the work you are also doing in this species lists in the Dupoto forest is specially interesting because there are no such lists available in any other source of that particular place. So, your information about it, is, at last for me, invaluable as a researcher in biology and conservationist. I´m looking up for my spider´s guides to identify the sp. in your picture, genericaly this kind of spiders are known as shield-spiders, but I will try to give you the scientific name. About the sex, it look like a female, since they have a bigger shield and general size. Thank you again for that great job you are doing there!

asuka, on 10 Oct 2007

Hi, we have no experts in doing exploration of this forest but it would be interesting to see what else are there. Dino from Dudu diary helped us with ID of the spider, check out the comment he left on my spider entry!

F. J. PECHIR, on 10 Oct 2007

Just cool!

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