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Oops, missed that tree

Botanists discover an acacia that dominates its northern Africa landscape

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Botanists couldn’t see the forest or the trees.

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.