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Podocarpus elongatus

Podocarpus elongatus General Info – summary Relatively small, dioecious, evergreen Tree is up to 6m+ high but often develops as a bush.  Epicormic buds are only present on this South African Podocarpus.  Elliptic, parallel veined Leaves are simple.  Small Male cones produce wind-dispersed pollen.  In the Female, the single ovules are not in cones but […]

Plumbago auriculata

Pittosporum viridiflorum

Pittosporum viridiflorum General Info – summary This resinous Tree may be deciduous.  It has a spreading crown, a smoothish bark and is 9m+ high.  Young bark has horizontal lenticels.  The obovate, leathery and glossy Leaves are simple, entire and lack stipules.  Small, white/greenish, 5-merous actinomorphic and bisexual Flowers are in panicles or in a terminal […]

Piliostigma thonningii

Piliostigma thonningii General Info – Summary Unarmed & usually dioecious leafy shrub or Tree up to 7m high.  Bark has longitudinal fissures.  Bauhinia-like, simple Leaves have red palmate veins.  Small zygomorphic, whitish, unisexual Flowers in pendulous racemes.  Male has 10 stamens.  Female with staminodes & a stalked, superior ovary – with ovules.  Fruit is a […]

Phyllogeiton zeyheri

Berchemia zeyheri N.B. Phyllogeiton zeyheri is an acceptable synonym for Berchemia zeyheri. See Berchemia zeyheri | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science General Info – summary This deciduous Tree is up to 12m high with a rounded crown and a trunk up to 36cm wide.  The small simple, Leaves are thin & side […]