As the Limbe region of the sea is part of the Bight of Biafra, the forest is referred to as Biafran type forest. The Natural Habitat (Wild) section of The Gardens occupies the Bota Hill to the west and the Jungle Village to the centre of The Gardens that makes up a third of The Garden surface area.

Presently, this forest habitat has been left undisturbed since German times and consist more exotic than native species including Cedrela spp. (American Mahogany) Artocarpus falcata and Arenga pinnata (Sugar Palm). The native species include Ceiba pentandra, Terminalia superba, Ricinodendron heudelotii, Pterocarpus soyauxii and many forest under-story shrubs, lianas and herbs. This forest is also rich in forest epiphytes like tree top ferns, orchids and parasites such as Lauranteceae spp.

The Mangrove species are also found at the coastal limit of the Bota Hill forest habitat including Rhozophora spp. common along the Cameroon-Nigeria mangrove coastline.

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