This alphabetical list of common tree names are organized by genus, then species, subspecies, and variety.
The Nile River has two major branches, the Blue Nile and the White Nile. Both branches are named for the color of their water. The Blue Nile is a bright blue at its source, and begins to darken when it reaches the Sudan, while the White Nileâs water is a whitish-gray (Hoyt, 2008). The White Nile is longer and travels through Egypt, Uganda, and meets the Blue Nile in the Sudan. Though the Blue Nile is shorter than the White, it supplies most of the water, beginning in Ethiopia and flowing until it meets the White Nile in the Sudan. The two branches of the Nile snake through the countries of Rwanda, Tanzania, Egypt, Ethiopia, Burundi, Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda (Tignor, 2010).
In the strict meaning, White Nile refers to the river formed at Lake No, at the confluence of the Bahr al Jabal and Bahr el Ghazal Rivers. In the wider sense, White Nile refers to all the stretches of river draining from Lake Victoria through to the merger with the Blue Nile. These higher stretches being named the Victoria Nile (via Lake Kyoga to Lake Albert), the Albert Nile (to the South Sudan border) and then the Mountain Nile or Bahr-al-Jabal (down to Lake No).