
Gardenia cornuta General Info – Summary This impressive Tree is up to 5m high with a greenish trunk and 3 whorled, abruptly ending branches. Obovate simple, glabrous Leaves with entire margins are in 3 whorls at branch ends. Large, white, sweet scented, regular Flowers are bisexual. Calyx has lanceolate twisting lobes. Six emerging stamens, a single pistil […]

Galpinia transvaalica General Info – Summary This many stemmed shrub or small Tree has squarish young branches. Simple, leathery, shiny Leaves are entire, opposite and decussate with an apical midrib gland. The small white, usually 6-merous, bisexual, regular Flowers have crinkled petals and attract insects. They occur in terminal or axillary panicles. Fruit is a small […]

Freylinia tropica General Info – Summary This small attractive Tree may reach 7m high but is often a shrub up to 3m. Spreading branches are loose. The hairless, shiny and glabrous Leaves are simple with a lightly serrated the upper margin. Small, regular, bisexual Flowers with a 5 lobed perianth, didynamous stamens, a superior ovary, […]

General Info – summary This attractive, dioecious and thornless Tree may reach 25m high and develops an almost spherical crown. Mature bark may have orange underbark. Paripinnate Leaves with widely spaced leaflets are fern-like. The midrib & petiole have leaf-like wings. Tiny, white, 5-merous, functionally unisexual Flowers are in terminal or axillary panicles. The Fruit is a […]

Ficus trichopoda General Info – Summary This monoecious, non-strangler fig Tree is up to 21m high & trunk + a unique horizontally spreading crown with descending prop roots. All damaged parts exude non-toxic milky latex. Large, simple Leaves are distinctly 3-veined at the base. The inflorescence is a syconium with a mutualistic relationship between the […]

Ficus sycomorus subsp. sycomorus General Info – summary This historical and noble Tree is widely distributed throughout Africa. It has a wide trunk and is up to 12m high in SA. Non-toxic milky latex is present. The simple, alternate & entire Leaves are 3-veined from the base on this usually evergreen tree. Stipules are caducous. Flowers are […]