Uganda is a tropical eastern Africa commonwealth with no coastline . It is butt against by Kenya , Tanzania , Rwanda , Congo and Sudan . The country is for the most part mountainous , with many plateau . It has pot of water system . The Nile River flow through Uganda , and Lake Victoria , the secondly largest freshwater lake in the world , is in the southeast part of the country . Uganda ’s forests are relegate as rainwater forests and they support a big telephone number of indigenous plant species .
Mvuli Trees
call by different epithet in different languages , the mvuli , or muvule , tree is orotund and resemble teak . It grows to 150 feet marvellous with a diameter up to 30 feet in Uganda ’s wet savannas , rain woodland , river environments and evergreen plant forests at lower altitudes . It is drouth patient of , which leave it to subsist Uganda ’s juiceless time of year . The mvuli tree has been valued for its timber and charcoal output capability for many years , which has resulted in a serious reduction in its numbers and the subsequent categorization as an endangered species .
Elephant Grass
Closely related to to the cosmetic fountain grass , this aboriginal metal money is also called Napier grass and Uganda grass . It ’s a tall grass that forms cluster up to 10 feet tall , with 2- to 3 - foundation leaves . It is a worthful farm animal food among Uganda ’s savannah farmers , who geld the grass and feed it to their Bos taurus , sheep and butt . The edges of the leave are serrated and very shrill , but this does n’t deter Uganda ’s native birds , many of which build their nests in the cover of this industrial plant . Outside of its aboriginal grasp in Uganda and other African countries , elephant grass has become an invasive specie in places such as Florida , where it chokes waterways .
Acacia Trees
In Uganda ’s arid northerly region , enceinte expanses of juiceless acacia woodlands dominate the landscape . Several metal money of the prominent acacia tree exist , with some grow sap that is dry out into a product predict gum arabic used as a food for thought stabilizer , in glue and cosmetics and in the impression and lithography job . The species known as Acacia Republic of Senegal is common in tropical Africa and is cultivated in other tropical areas , such as India . This acacia tree is used as firewood in many of the regions where it grows and is also valuable in helping to control erosion of sandlike soil and in breezy sphere , according to Purdue University .
Bamboo
The mountains of Uganda support Brobdingnagian stands of bamboo , which shape forests . This natural imagination has been used in the building of home and furniture for many years . Since 2006 , the Uganda Industrial Research Institute has study bamboo for its value in make marketable products , such as toothpicks , base tiles , mats , baskets , curtains , tablecloth , bag , cups and other souvenir point . A processing plant has been build in Kabale , which is in an sphere of Uganda where bamboo grows .
