
Phoenix reclinata General Info – summary The evergreen Tree with slender stem is usually to 6m high & may be multi-stemmed. Leaves pinnately compound arching. Leaflets long & lanceolate. Basal leaflets reduced to spines. Dioecious Flowers in pendulous panicles. Male: 6 stamens and joined filament bases. Female: ovary with 3 carpels, 6 staminodes and a […]

Philenoptera violacea General Info – Summary This graceful Tree is up to 20m high. Damaged parts may release a red sap. Bark and roots are toxic. The imparipinnate greyish Leaves have up to 3 pairs of opposite leaflets with a much larger single end one. The whitish, blue or violet, scented pea-like, zygomorphic bisexual Flowers […]

Pappea capensis General Info – Summary This impressive widely distributed Tree has smoothish bark & is up to 9m+ high. Rough, leathery, stiff Leaves are simple, lack stipules and shape and size varies. Tiny, usually, 5-merous and regular Flowers are dioecious or monoecious (here the male flowers ripen first). These flowers develop in racemes. The […]