This type of dry, thicket forest is rare, found only along a few rivers flowing into the Zambezi from the south, especially along the Musengezi River. The forests have an unusually large number of trees and woody climbing vines, which botanists call lianas, and many plants that are unusual or rare in Zimbabwe grow in them. There are species common in several different types of forests and woodlands all growing together in one place. There is the idea that this was some kind of relict community of plants, leftover from the last Ice-Age when the climate was wetter here. Sacred forests should only be approached with permission and according to accepted rituals