Top 5 From the data
5 plants that appear in the most countries on PlantsMap
For each of 200 countries PlantsMap lists its best-known plants – national symbols, plants of the landscape, crops and plants of culture. Some species turn up in dozens of these lists: crops that spread with trade, trees of whole climate zones. Here are the five that appear most often.
How this list was made
- Criterion
- Number of countries whose PlantsMap list includes the plant (one entry per country); ties broken by scientific name. The point on the map is the country where the plant ranks highest.
- Source
- PlantsMap – country lists of plants
- As of
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Photo: W.carter · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons Grapevine
Vitis vinifera
on the list of 27 countries
- Scientific name
- Vitis vinifera
- Type
- crop
- Description from
- Georgia
Georgia is the cradle of wine – traces of winemaking here go back 8,000 years, and wine is still fermented in clay qvevri buried in the ground.
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Photo: Forest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons Arabica coffee
Coffea arabica
on the list of 23 countries
- Scientific name
- Coffea arabica
- Type
- crop
- Description from
- Burundi
Coffee from Burundi’s hills is the country’s main export – it is grown by several hundred thousand smallholders.
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Photo: Jan Helebrant · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons Date palm
Phoenix dactylifera
on the list of 21 countries
- Scientific name
- Phoenix dactylifera
- Type
- palm
- Description from
- Bahrain
Bahrain was called the “land of a million palms” – its freshwater springs fed date groves as far back as ancient Dilmun.
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Photo: Jebulon · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons Olive
Olea europaea
on the list of 20 countries
- Scientific name
- Olea europaea
- Type
- tree
- Description from
- Albania
Albania’s olive groves are centuries old – olive oil from Berat and Vlorë is the pride of Albanian cooking and village life.
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Photo: Balon Greyjoy · public domain · Wikimedia Commons Rice
Oryza sativa
on the list of 17 countries
- Scientific name
- Oryza sativa
- Type
- crop
- Description from
- Laos
The Lao eat more sticky rice than anyone else in the world – it is served in woven baskets and eaten with the fingers.
