General Info – summary This widespread Tree is up to 20m high with bark that becomes reddish brown and fissured. Shiny, simple Leaves with a 3-veined, asymmetric base & stipules that produce paired thorns – 1 straight and 1 curved. 5-merous bisexual yellowish-green Flowers are regular & in cymes. 5 stamens are present. A single […]
General Info – summary This usually much branched Tree is usually up to 7m+ high with cone-shaped knobs with sharp spines. When crushed the imparipinnate Leaves smell of citrus and have visible gland dots on the margins. Leaflets increase in size towards the apex. Unisexual, 4-merous, greenish white Flowers develop in panicles. Fruit is a capsule […]
General Info – summary. This magnificent frost sensitive evergreen & wide spreading Tree has a roundish canopy & may reach 18m+ high. It usually has several combined trunks. Imparipinnate Leaves have leaflets with entire margins & asymmetric bases. Creamy-white, bisexual, zygomorphic & 5-merous Flowers are in axillary racemes and have superior ovaries & short styles. […]
General Info – summary. This resinous, fire sensitive & monoecious Tree is up to 40m high & 1m in diameter. The fibrous bark is reddish grey and tends to flake. Young Leaves are initially needle-like, become decussate, adpressed and scale like. Small Male cones have 6 pairs of peltate (shield-shaped) & coriaceous scales. Female cones […]
General Info. This monoecious bush or Tree has aromatic resin and reddish underbark, may reach 15m locally. Young needle-like Leaves are light green. Older scale-like leaves are appressed & near branch ends. Each of the scales on the small Male cones contains 4 pollen sacs with wind dispersed pollen. In the Female cones, the 4 […]
General Info. This glabrous, evergreen Tree with aromatic, peppery bark is up to 12m high and has distinctive lenticels. Trunk has small distinct lenticel bulges. Simple Leaves + entire margins & lack stipules. Small bisexual Flowers have 3 sepals and 10 petals. Ten stamens extend from a staminal tube and the single pistil with a […]