
Searsia burchellii General Info – Summary Dioecious shrub or Tree is up to 5m high with a wide crown. It is an arid area survivor with distinctive lenticels. Trifoliate Leaves have small leaflets with indistinct veins. Petioles are grooved above. Small, 5-merous, regular Flowers are in panicles. Male with a rudimentary pistil and free filaments. […]

Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra General Info – Summary This upright, dioecious and usually up to 9m high Tree has high, stout branches and a large environment impact. The deciduous Leaves are imparipinnate, become entire and hairless. Male flowers in racemes with up to 25 stamens. Usually, solitary Female flowers are on pedicels have a superior […]

Schrebera alata General Info – Summary The spineless usually evergreen Tree is usually up to 5m high with a trunk up to 30cm wide. The opposite imparipinnate Leaves are smooth & entire with a winged rachis & petiole base. Regular, bisexual Flowers are heterostylous & in cymes. The green calyx surrounds the white hairy petals. Two […]

Schotia brachypetala General Info – summary This Tree may reach 22m high and trunk up to 0,6m wide. Crown is up to 15m wide. Paripinnate Leaves are up to 17 x 8cm. Attractive overall red, bisexual Flowers produce much nectar. The calyx is 4-lobed, and petals are reduced or absent. 10 joined stamens enclose the […]

Schotia afra var. afra General Info – summary This plant is endemic in South Africa. The Tree may reach 6m high with rigid branches. Compound paripinnate and alternate Leaves are coriaceous. Attractive, bisexual, usually red and 5-merous Flowers in panicles and up to 5cm long. 10 red filaments surround the single pistil with a superior […]

Schefflera umbellifera – updating website General Info – summary This Tree has grey-brown bark, is up to 20m high and a 0,6m wide trunk that may be buttressed. Seedlings have simple Leaves. Mature leaves are palmately compound with 3-5 wavy leaflets. The many small, whitish, regular and 5-merous Flowers in a large inflorescence. Anthers have […]