1. African Baobab (Adansonia digitata)
A thick and iconic tree of the savanna. Some of them are hollow and can be used to make dwellings.
2. Grandidier's Baobab (Adansonia grandidieri)
Also known as the reniala in the Malagasy language, or "mother of the forest", this is Madagascar's largest and most iconic baobab species.
3. Bismarck Palm (Bismarckia nobilis)
A Madagascar-native fan palm known for its unique silverish color. A close cousin of the Borassus palms.
4. African Fan Palm (Borassus aethiopicum)
A tall fan palm with edible fruit; it is also used for lumber. The Great Mosque of Djenne incorporates the wood of this palm, which inhabits lowlands around tropical Africa.
5. Msasa (Brachystegia spiciformis)
An iconic tree of the highlands of the African Rift Valley, which turns a beautiful red color in the autumn.
6. Kapok (Ceiba pentandra)
An incredibly tall rainforest canopy tree. Native to the Amazon of South America, but also in West Africa.
7. Cocoplum (Chrysobalanus icaco)
A shrub that produces edible fruits, native to both the Ameritropics and West Africa.
8. Kola Nut (Cola nitida)
The tree from which the kola nut, used for making Coca-cola and other beverages, is grown.
9. Mopane (Colophospermum mopane)
A tree with butterfly-wing-shaped leaves, used for its dense lumber for crafting and firewood.
10. Leadwood (Combretum imberbe)
Another commonly used lumber & firewood tree of southern Africa, and the largest of the bushwillow family.
11. Gabon Ebony (Diospyros crassiflora)
A dark-wooded jungle tree famed for its lumber. Endangered due to overharvesting.
12. Dragonblood Tree (Dracaena cinnabari)
A bizarre-looking succulent tree from the island of Socotra, known for its red resin and alien-like appearance.
13. Iroko (Milicia excelsa)
A large lumber tree from West Africa; one of the species known as "African Teak"
14. Bottle Tree (Moringa drouhardii)
A thick-trunked tree with smooth white bark. A native of Madagascar's spiny forests, where it is planted in towns and around traditional gravesites.
15. Podocarpus milanjianus
A tropical gymnosperm with a buttressed trunk, native to the montane rainforests of Cameroon.
16. African Cherry (Prunus africana)
Another common canopy tree of the central African rainforests, and also in Madagascar.
17. Raffia Palm (Raphia farinifera)
A common palm tree, often used to weave traditional cloth known as raffia.
18. Traveler's Palm (Ravenala madagascariensis)
A strange-looking palm-like tree. It is widely distributed across various biomes in Madagascar. (NOTE THAT THESE SCHEMS LACK WOOD ALTOGETHER; LEAF DECAY CANNOT BE ENABLED FOR THESE)
19. Red Mangrove (Rhizopora mangle)
A mangrove common on the west coast of Africa, and also the tropical Americas.
20. Cape Willow (Salix mucronata)
A willow tree native to the southern tip of the continent; it grows along rivers and wetlands, as willows do.
21. Marula (Sclerocarya birrea)
A tree whose fruits are used to make oil and liquor- safari-goers claim to see wild animals get drunk off of its rotten fruits.
22. Pink Jacaranda (Stereospermum kunthianum)
Not to be confused with the purple "true" Jacarandas found in South African urban areas (those are natives of the Amazon), the Pink Jacaranda is an African native widely distributed across the continent south of the Sahara. It has pink flowers and white birch-like bark.
23. Tapia (Uapaca bojeri)
A drought-adapted small tree native to Madagascar's dry interior highlands. It bears edible fruit, which is eaten locally. Large tapia-dominated open woodlands are common in the interior.
24. Camel Thorn (Vachellia erioloba)
An iconic acacia tree favored by giraffes, and the basis for the vanilla acacias present in Minecraft.
25. Sausage tree (Kigelia africana)
A tree of the savanna with hanging sausage-like fruit. The fruits are toxic to humans, however.
26. African coralwood (Pterocarpus soyauxii)
A jungle tree of central Africa with beautiful red lumber. Its leaves are edible and are rich in vitamin C
27. Gum acacia (Senegalia senegal)
One of the many acacia species by which gum arabic is created. This sap extract is used as an edible glue and stabilizer in many applications, including food, postage, ceramics, paint, explosives, and more.
28. Fever tree (Vachellia xanthophloea)
A yellow-barked acacia that grows near water and swamps in southern Africa. It is one of the few trees that does photosynthesis with its trunk.
29. Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis)
While its dates are not commonly eaten by humans, this species of palm native to the Canary Islands is planted in warm climates worldwide as an ornamental. (DO NOT ALLOW FOR LEAF DECAY FOR THESE EITHER BY THE WAY)