Somalia's beautiful rare plants

If you're a SucculentPhile like Kevin Belmonte you'll find that Somalia is blessed with succulent and rare plants such as Pseudolithos Harardheranus, Pseudolithos Eylensis, Pseudolithos cubiformis, Euphorbia columnaris, Euphorbia sepulta, Euphorbia turbiniformis, Pseudolithos caput-viperae, Pseudolithos migiurtinus and Euphorbia phillipsiae. These are rare endemic plants that can regularly be found in Eyl, and Harardhere where problems of piracy are persisting. The whole world is preoccupied at the moment with this endemic piracy problems and Eyl and Harardhere, we're told, are piracy capitals in Somalia. So the world become aware of these two coastal towns as piracy business places. But, what we didn't know is that these two places are homes to these rare and succulent plants.

Pseudolithos Harardheranus (Source:Philstar.com)

I am not going to say more as I want you to read the whole article of Kevin Belemonte which is a very good piece of writing that highlights the good parts of Somalia and these two towns. Furthermore, the author, he claims, will talk in another article about other fascinating species in Somalia wild environments, and will also write about the efforts to preserve these plants. With this never ending civil war, and the fight against the pirates in Somalia these plants, other plants, and the environment has been destroyed, and action maybe needed to preserve the environment. Click Here to read the entire article.