Around Gubanare there are lots of large, open plains covered in tall grass and interspersed with dry established thorny thickets. Among these are dense stands of leadwood trees, Combretum imberbe, and knobthorns, Acacia nigrescens. The latter are so numerous that their beautiful, creamy flowers combine to form a powerful perfume.
Perhaps as the result of fires in the past, there are large areas of chest-high wild sage, amidst occasional ‘islands’, typical of the Delta, where termite mounds are dotted with African mangosteens, raintrees, marulas, sausage trees and jackalberrys. Amongst the larger stands of trees are umbrella thorns, Acacia tortilis, and real fan palms, Hyphaene petersiana. But these islands of forest are relatively infrequent and quite poorly defined.
In the far north, the concession has a short boundary with Moremi, the Boro River, which is one of the Delta’s best known channels and is lined in parts by mature riverine forest.
Overall the mixed environment contains a wide variation of tree and plant species, though it doesn’t have the beauty of some of the more mature, established forests or floodplain areas.