Day: August 18, 2010

Prunus africana

In addition to the 3 species we sampled in the Debresena church forest on our first day here in our second week of the expedition, we are focusing on a species in the same family as cherry trees. It is called Prunus africana (Prunus is also the genus of cherry). This Prunus is very important […]

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Update from Debre Tabor

We were so happy to find a newish hotel in Debre Tabor, complete with showers! However, last night was a huge and blustery rain storm, closing the noisy disco in the alley next door (a blessing!) but also flooding some of our rooms and also cutting off electricity. So we awoke to no showers, no […]

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