TREES FOR THE FOREST A tree now named Acacia fumosa covers thousands of square kilometers of the limestone hills in Ethiopia’s Ogaden region. Yet botanists had never named the tree until 2008. The new species bears pink flowers in the dry season, unlike most acacias, which produce yellow or cream blooms in the wet season.
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