TreeScan Rwanda — indigenous trees of Rwanda

Explore Rwanda's indigenous trees by their Kinyarwanda and English names: photos of leaves, flowers, fruit and bark, uses, habitat and conservation status. Scan a tree's QR code at Kigali Eco Park.

Parks

• Nyandungu Eco Park
• Gikondo Wetland Park
• Rwampala Wetland Park
• Rugenge-Rwintare Wetland Park
• Kibumba Wetland Park
• Nyabugogo Wetland Park

• Bersama abyssinica (African Bersama) — Bersama abyssinica
• Dombeya kirkii (Kirk's Dombeya) — Dombeya kirkii
• Igihondohondo (Northern Large-Leaved Dragon-Tree) — Dracaena steudneri
• Ikidoboli (False Cape Fig, Haroni Fig) — Ficus vallis-choudae
• Ikigazi (Oil Palm) — Elaeis guineensis
• Imiseke (Reed Grass) — Phragmites mauritianus
• Intareyirungu (Knobwood Tree) — Zanthoxylum chalybeum
• Macaranga (Highland Macaranga) — Macaranga kilimandscharica
• Munuka (White Stinkwood) — Celtis africana
• Sycomore (Sycamore Fig) — Ficus sycomorus
• Umuberanya (Southern Cattail) — Typha domingensis
• Umububa (Poison Pod Albizia) — Albizia versicolor
• Umudobori (Umurwamporo) (Pigeon Wood) — Trema orientale
• Umufu (Umuhuririzi) (Real Yellowwood) — Podocarpus latifolius
• Umugano (Gakondo) (Common Bamboo) — Bambusa vulgaris
• Umugano (Ubwoko bworoshye) (Weaver's Bamboo, Slender Bamboo) — Bambusa textilis
• Umuganzacyaro (Buffalo Thorn) — Ziziphus mucronata
• Umugeshi (African Redwood, East African Rosewood) — Hagenia abyssinica
• Umugimbu (Umushashi) (Mitzeeri) — Bridelia micrantha
• Umugote (Waterberry / Water Pear) — Syzygium guineense
• Umuguruka (Pterygota) — Pterygota mildbraedii
• Umuhanga (False Assegai) — Maesa lanceolata
• Umuharata/Ruganambuga (Falcon's Claw Acacia) — Senegalia polyacantha
• Umuhumuro (Umbrella Tree) — Maesopsis eminii
• Umukereko (Forest Newtonia) — Newtonia buchananii
• Umukindo (Wild Date Palm, Senegal Date Palm) — Phoenix reclinata
• Umukinga (Flood Plain Acacia) — Vachellia kirkii
• Umuko/Umurinzi (Red Hot Poker Tree) — Erythrina abyssinica
• Umukore (Forest Dombeya) — Dombeya torrida
• Umukuyu (Cape Fig, Broom Cluster Fig) — Ficus sur
• Umunege (Croton Tree) — Croton megalocarpus
• Umunyara (African Tulip Tree) — Spathodea campanulata
• Umunyinta w'Ingara (Flat Top Acacia) — Vachellia abyssinica
• Umunzenze (Wild Olive / African Olive) — Olea europaea subsp. africana
• Umurehe (African Fig) — Ficus ovata
• Umurera (Ambatch Tree, Pith) — Aeschynomene elaphroxylon
• Umusange (Splinter Bean) — Entada abyssinica
• Umusasa (Hopbush) — Dodonaea viscosa
• Umusave (Nile Tulip) — Markhamia lutea
• Umusebeya (Flat-Crown) — Albizia adianthifolia
• Umutoyi (Fluted Milkwood) — Gambeya gorungosana
• Umuturamugina (Triangle Tops) — Blighia unijugata
• Umuvumu (Wild Fig) — Ficus thonningii
• Umuvumu w'ishyamba (Urnfig) — Trilepisium madagascariense
• Umuvungavungo (Sausage Tree) — Kigelia africana
• Umuyogoro (Wenge, Faux Ebony) — Millettia laurentii
• Umuzibaziba (Mitragyna rubrostipulata) — Fleroya rubrostipulata
• Umwarangabo (Forest Fever Tree) — Anthocleista grandiflora
• Umwumba (African Cherry) — Prunus africana
• Umwungo (Parasol Tree) — Polyscias fulva