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This video is a little late as several months have passed from the time of filming as things got fairly busy with some other projects but better late than never we've been told. With that said, welcome to another Bush Treks video as we highlight some of the vegetation around Kapishya Hot Springs and Shiwa N'gandu up along the Muchinga Escarpment in north eastern Zambia. Again we toured the different habitat types, mostly the high rainfall rocky escarpment woodland and dambo grasslands, in pursuit of members of the Orchidaceae family and anything else of interest that we might come across. So join us now as we wander the Bush at this wonderful location! Video breakdown: 00:00 Intro 01:16 Kapishya Hot Springs 02:51 Habitat overview 04:06 Biophytum kassneri (Oxalidaceae) 04:17 Streptocarpus rhodesianus (Gesneriaceae) 04:28 Disperis katangensis & D. reichenbachiana (Orchidaceae) 04:46 Polystachya concreta (Orchidaceae) 05:04 Unknown Ledebouria species (Asparagaceae - Scilloideae) 05:24 Disa engleriana (Orchidaceae) 05:44 Zygotritonia nyassana (Iridaceae) 05:57 Gladiolus gregarius (Iridaceae) 06:07 Euphorbia griseola subsp. zambiensis (Euphorbiaceae) 06:41 Rocky woodland outro and dambo grassland intro 07:29 Platycoryne isoetifolia & P. protearum (Orchidaceae) 07:59 Brachycorythis buchananii (Orchidaceae) 08:12 Disa equestris (Orchidaceae) 08:27 Moraea brevifolia (Iridaceae) 08:45 Xysmalobium holubii (Apocynaceae - Asclepiadoideae) 09:01 Xyris sp. (Xyridaceae) 09:13 Afrosolen erythranthus (Iridaceae) 09:24 Buchnera prorepens (Orobanchaceae) 09:37 Dambo grassland outro 09:58 Shiwa House 10:29 Outro 11:01 Tiny toads As always, if you want to learn more about any of the plants mentioned in this video, please check out the Flora of Zambia website (https://www.zambiaflora.com) to find more pictures and descriptions. Also, please don't hesitate to leave us a comment on the video or any of the plants we've talked about. Cheers and thank you for watching!

Welcome back to another Bush Treks Zambia video! This time we highlight the plants that we came across at Mutinondo Wilderness, a lovely and relaxing Lodge set within a stunning area of the Muchinga Escarpment in east central Zambia. We toured the dambo grasslands, miombo woodland and inselberg vegetation habitats looking for orchids and filming whatever else was growing and in flower during our trip in mid February 2022 despite the lower than normal rains that the country has been experiencing during the 2021/22 rainy season. Video breakdown: 00:00 Intro 01:34 Dambo grasslands intro 02:16 Brachycorythis buchananii (Orchidaceae) 02:32 Ascolepis protea (Cyperaceae) 02:43 Aeollanthus engleri (Lamiaceae) 03:00 Protea welwitschii (Proteaceae) 03:21 Orthochilus odontoglossus (Orchidaceae) 03:40 Crotalaria cornetii (Fabaceae - Papilionoideae) 03:57 Aeollanthus subacaulis (Lamiaceae) 04:29 Miombo woodlands intro 04:57 Habenaria disparilis (Orchidaceae) 05:18 Habenaria uhehensis (Orchidaceae) 05:32 Habenaria uncicalcar (Orchidaceae) 05:51 Habenaria gonatosiphon (Orchidaceae) 06:06 Habenaria clavata (Orchidaceae) 06:27 Habenaria macrura (Orchidaceae) 06:39 Disperis katangensis (Orchidaceae) 06:54 Liparis nervosa (Orchidaceae) 07:13 Erythrocephalum longifolium (Asteraceae) 07:29 Macrotyloma fimbriatum (Fabacae - Papilionoideae) 07:44 Oxalis obliquifolia (Oxalidaceae) 07:55 Begonia princeae (Begoniaceae) 08:20 Crabbea kaessneri (Acanthaceae) 08:33 Hypericum peplidifolium (Hypericaceae) 08:53 Afrohybanthus enneaspermus (Violaceae) 09:09 Chlorophytum sp. (Asparagaceae) 09:27 Aloe nuttii (Asphodelaceae) 09:47 Glossostelma spathulatum (Apocynaceae - Asclepiadoideae) 10:18 Pachycarpus lineolatus (Apocynaceae - Asclepiadoideae) 10:50 Inselberg intro 11:45 Myrothamnus flabellifolius (Myrothamnaceae) 12:31 Gymnanthemum bellinghamii (Asteraceae) 12:51 Chamaepentas nobilis (Rubiaceae) 13:10 Sphenostylis briartii (Fabaceae - Papilionoideae) 13:24 Cyphia mozoensis (Campanulaceae) & Afrosolen erythranthus (Iridaceae) 13:44 Moraea carsonii (Iridaceae) 14:02 Euphorbia jubata (Euphorbiaceae) 14:21 Inselberg outro 15:46 Outro As always, if you want to learn more about any of the plants mentioned in this video, please check out the Flora of Zambia website (https://www.zambiaflora.com) to find more pictures and descriptions. Also, please don't hesitate to leave us a comment on the video or any of the plants we've talked about. Cheers and thanks for watching!

In this second installment of our trip to the Mafinga Mountains in north eastern Zambia, we start to look at the different vegetation types that occur in the mountains. For this video we'll be covering the vegetation we came across in the forest and woodland habitats, namely the montane and submontane forests, the hill miombo woodland and the riparian forest are covered. The Mafinga Mountains are shared between Zambia and Malawi and the range contains Zambia's highest point at 2339 m above sea level. Zambia does not have too many montane habitats so it's an area of particular interest for biodiversity but has surprisingly been less scientifically surveyed than other parts of the country. However, it is important as the catchment area of the source of the Luangwa River lies in the Mafingas before meandering through the Luangwa valley and entering the Zambezi River. The vegetation encompasses a range of habitat types: i) secondary chipya scrub is a tangle of shrubs and herbs up to 3 m tall with occasional emergent trees and is usually regularly burnt back by season fires; ii) hill miombo woodland growing around the lower reaches and occasionally up towards the crests of the ridges; iii) submontane forest is usually a 3-storey evergreen forest of dominant trees, shrubs and a sparse ground layer; iv) montane forest fringing the submontane forest and is usually drier and shorter than the former; v) riparian forests border streams with vegetation essentially comprising lowland species; vi)montane scrub and grasslands occupies the uppermost reaches and comprises grasses, sedges and suffrutices. Video Breakdown 00:00 Intro 01:22 Submontane and montane forest 06:53 Hill miombo woodland 11:32 Riparian forest 14:09 Outro For more information about the plants in this video or in Zambia, please check out the Flora of Zambia website (https://www.zambiaflora.com) to learn more. Cheers!

We're back with some new Bush Treks videos with first installment of our recent trip up to the Mafinga Mountains in north eastern Zambia. It's a bit a distance away from our homebase in Lusaka and it is very exciting to get out of the city into mostly unspoiled habitat close to the highest point in Zambia. This first video on the Mafinga Mountains details the issues with getting there and climbing up them so there's very little on the vegetation in this video sorry, but for those more botanically inclined, stay tuned for the next part which will detail the vegetation of the Mafingas and talk about those plants that we did come across during our expedition! The Mafinga Mountains are shared between Zambia and Malawi and the range contains Zambia's highest point at 2339 m above sea level. Zambia does not have too many montane habitats so it's an area of particular interest for biodiversity but has surprisingly been less scientifically surveyed than other parts of the country. However, it is important as the catchment area for the source of the Luangwa River lies in the Mafingas before meandering through the Luangwa valley and entering the Zambezi River. The vegetation encompass a range of habitat types: i) secondary chipya scrub is a tangle of shrubs and herbs up to 3 m tall with occasional emergent trees and regularly burnt back by seasonal fires; ii) hill miombo woodland growing around the lower reaches and occasionally up towards the crests of the ridges; iii) submontane forest is usually a 3-storey evergreen forest of dominant trees, shrubs and a sparse ground layer; iv) montane forest fringing the submontane forest and is usually drier and shorter than the former; v) riparian forests border streams with vegetation essentially comprising lowland species; vi) montane scrub and grasslands occupies the uppermost reaches and comprises grasses, sedges and suffrutices. We'll get more into the vegetation of the Mafingas in the next part of this series but for now that's a brief breakdown. Video breakdown 00:00 Intro 02:30 Getting to the Mafingas: The state of Zambia's roads 06:10 Arriving at the Mafinga 07:16 Starting the climb 09:39 Drive-by vegetation breakdown on the way to camp 11:55 Making it to Camp in Mulangale Forest 14:30 Leaving the Mafingas: The walk out 16:10 Reflecting on the trip and Outro