
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 […]

Ormocarpum trichocarpum General Info – Summary This spiny shrub or small Tree, with its ridged branches and deeply fissured corky bark, is up to 5m high. The small imparipinnate Leaves are on hairy spur branches. The zygomorphic Flowers are bisexual. Here the pea-shaped, light blue petals have a much darker network of attractive violet veins […]

Oncoba spinosa General Information – Summary This attractive Tree has reddish brown smoothish bark and is up to 8m high. Single spines & lenticels are present. Thin, opposite, simple, & shiny Leaves usually have a toothed margin. Impressive white single, bisexual Flowers have 3-4 sepals. Several white petals have a central distinctive ball-like group of […]

Olinia ventosa General Info – summary This Tree is up to 25m high. Wide straight trunk with high up branches becomes rough & flaky. Simple, decussate Leaves have entire margins, short petioles and rudimentary stipules. Regular, tubular Flowers are very small, pinkish, bisexual, in cymes with inconspicuous sepal lobes. Galls may distort plant parts. Fruit […]

Olinia emarginata General Info – summary This usually small and attractive Tree may reach 20m high. The distinctly mottled bark may be flaking. Branchlets are clearly 4-angled. Simple, glabrous, entire and decussate Leaves are shiny above. Bisexual and regular Flowers in impressive pink racemes. The perianth has 3 whorls: hypanthium-calyx, corolla, and scale-like inner whorl. […]

Olea europaea subsp. africana This widespread evergreen Tree with its densely branched crown is up to 14m high or is a shrub. Roots are up to 7m long. Young branches are squarish. Simple, decussate Leaves are bicoloured, opaque and shine in the sun. Small whitish bisexual regular and 4-merous Flowers are in panicles. Two stamens and a […]