Botswana’s National Plants
Botswana’s national tree is the marula (morula) while her national flower is the devil’s claw (sengaparile). National Tree: Marula [Morula] Known as the Sclerocarya birrea in scientific circles, the marula tree gets its name directly from the Setswana “morula” (whose ‘o’ sound has proven very difficult to native English speakers, who tend to give it a more ‘a’ sounding pronunciation – like is the case with how Botswana sounds more like Batswana from an Angloglot’s tongue). The tree is a…