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Amazing Trees from Nigeria in Africa
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Nigeria is on the West Coast of Africa, where over 250 different languages are spoken including English for the students of Community Secondary School from the Akwa Ibom region in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. The Capital is Abuja, a bustling city inland.
They join our schools from many other countries taking part in this exciting project.
They have had to overcome considerable difficulties in order to publish their amazing work and pictures online, as few schools in Nigeria have fast if any internet access, many students travel considerable distances to use the local Internet Cafe!
Writing in excellent English, their Second language, the students knowledge of the trees in their school compound and their uses are quite remarkable.
How many trees can you name that grow in a tropical rain forest?
How many of us, think about the special significance of our trees?
How many can we name in our own country?
Do we take them all for granted?
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Oil Palm Tree by Christiana from Nigeria (age 16)
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Oil Palm Tree (OPT)
Oil Palm Tree is the most important economic tree in my locality because all parts of the tree are useful.
It is both food and cash crop.
Palm oil is used in the kitchen for Afang soup and other African dishes.
In industries palm oil can be used in making soap, cream, vegetable oil, Margarine, candles, etc.
The front is used for fencing, broom and firewood when dry.
The stem is used as firewood or planks for building.
Palm wine is also tapped from it. The roots are medicinal...More
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The Orange Tree
by Itokobe (age 17)
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Oranges are common fruits in my area. We have the wild and hybrid Oranges.
While the wild ones bear fruits once a year the hybrid can fruit all the year round.
You can find Oranges in almost if not every compound in my village.
It is eaten as fruit when ripe or used as raw materials for manufacture of Fanta drink in industries.
There's an Orange Orchard in my School compound, it's often infested by human pests (people).
Sweet orange, lemon, grape, and lime are in the School Orchard. We eat oranges when thirsty or after meal. This is the season for harvesting oranges.
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The Wonderful Mango Tree by Esther (age 15)
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MANGO
Mango is a fruit tree that is quite tall.
There are Grade 1 and Grade 2 types of Mangoes. Mango buds and blossoms mostly during the dry season (Hamarttan).
Raw mango fruit is green and turns yellow when ripe. It takes about three months for mango to ripe.
Ripe mango can drop on its own or be plucked. If one's mango fruit drops you can pick it and eat, no problem, but you don't pluck it without the permission of the owner.
The bark of mango is used as medicine to treat Malaria and the leaves given to goats as fodder. Dead parts of Mango are used for firewood.
Stems of big Mangoes can be sawn into planks for building houses.
There are many Mango trees in my School. They also beautify the School premises and serve as wind break. Mango is propagated by the use of seeds as planting materials.
I prefer eating Grade 1 Mango to Grade 2 because it is sweeter and has weak fibres that cannot hook on my teeth as the Grade 2 would.
This is off season for Mango; otherwise I would send some fruits to you, if you wouldn’t mind eating our Mango.
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Shade in our Classrooms from the Great Mango
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