
Rauvolfia caffra General Info – summary This graceful upright Tree with widespread milky sap is up to 35m high with a rounded crown. The simple, narrow, entire, drooping, and smooth Leaves lack stipules have latex present. The tiny white, 5-merous, regular Flowers are trumpet shaped and have single pistils. Drupaceous Fruit has 1 or 2 seeds. […]

Raphia australis General Info – Summary This rare monocarpic, unbranched and monoecious Tree may reach 24m high. Pneumatophores may be present. Pinnately compound Leaves are up to 10m long. Leaflets not reduced to spines. Old leaf bases remain. Regular unisexual Flowers develop in a 3m long terminal inflorescence. Male: 6-16 stamens. Female: 3 chambered, superior […]

Rapanea melanophloeos General Info – summary This evergreen Tree may reach 18m high. It may also be a bush. The simple Leaves have entire margins, are punctate, lack stipules and tend to develop at branch ends. The 5-merous regular and dioecious Flowers may arise on older wood. Stamens have large anthers that lack filaments. The […]

Pterocarpus rotundifolius General Info – Summary This multi-stemmed plant may be a single stemmed Tree up to 20m high. The imparipinnate Leaves have roundish leaflets with entire margins. Bisexual, zygomorphic, 5-merous pea-like Flowers have golden yellow petals. Within this are 10 stamens, a single pistil + a superior ovary with a small stigma. Fruit is […]

Pterocarpus angolensis – Updating website! General Info – Summary This deciduous, local Tree is usually up to 15 x 0,6m. Sticky red sap is present. Imparipinnate, alternate Leaves are relatively sparse with well-spaced leaflets with parallel curving side veins. Zygomorphic, bisexual pea-like Flowers in racemes + yellowish, crinkled petals. The Fruit is a distinctive flattened, […]

Ptaeroxylon obliquum General Info – summary This Tree is up to 20m high or may be a multi-stemmed shrub. The paripinnate Leaves lack stipules. Leaflets are asymmetric with translucent dots. Actinomorphic Flowers are small, pale yellow, regular, 4-merous and dioecious. The male has 4 free stamens, and the female has a superior flattened ovary with […]