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Ethiopia plants vary from lush tropical forest plants, to dry grasses, trees and crops.
Trees include date palm, mimosa, wild olive, giant sycamores, junipers and laurels, myrrh and other gum trees and pines. Fruit trees include fig, orange, lime, pomegranate, peach, apricot, banana, and other fruit trees. Coffee, spices, indigo, cotton and sometimes sugar are also grown.
Vegetation in Ethiopia
Vegetation in Ethiopia is comprised of four main biomes, which are found across the country’s regions.
The first biome is savanna, consisting of montane tropical vegetation with dense, forests and rich undergrowth and drier savanna and tropical dry forests mixed with grassland at lower elevations of the Western and Eastern Highlands.
The second biome is comprised of mountain vegetation, mostly montane and temperate grasslands, covering the higher altitudes of the Western and Eastern Highlands.
The third biome is made up of tropical thickets and wooded steppe, and is found in the Rift Valley and Eastern Lowlands.
The fourth biome is desert steppe vegetation, covering areas of the Denakil Plain.
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