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The thicket vegetation of the intermontane valleys to the north and west of the ecoregion is a dense shrubland dominated by Spekboom (Portulacaria afra).
Albany thickets 2008
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The vegetation contains a high proportion of both leaf and stem-succulent shrubs such as Spekboom (Portulacaria afra), Euphorbia bothae (dominant along the Fish River Valley), Euphorbia ledienii and Noorsdoring (Euphorbia coerulescens) (dominant along the Sundays River Valley).
Albany thickets 2008
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The eastern zone is often furnished with mountains, well wooded with evergreen succulent trees, on which neither fire nor droughts can have the smallest effect (‘Strelitzia’, ‘Zamia horrida’, ‘Portulacaria afra’, ‘Schotia speciosa’, ‘Euphorbias’, and ‘Aloes arborescens’); and its seaboard gorges are clad with gigantic timber.
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Afrikaans name for Portulacaria afra, a succulent tree known for its enormous carbon-storing capabilities.
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