
General Info – summary This deciduous Tree has pale bark and is up to 20m high. Branchlets have prickles. Leaves are trifoliate and leaflets are entire & have a pair of glands at the base. Impressive 5-merous, reddish, zygomorphic Flowers, are bisexual, and in racemes. Visible stamens: 10 (with 1 free), dehisce longitudinally. The stalked, […]

General Info – summary This deciduous Plant is a suffrutex, may reach 2m high and usually a shrub. Deciduous trifoliate Leaves have entire leaflets. Only the bases of the paired leaflets are asymmetric. The zygomorphic 5-merous Flowers are in racemes. The vexillum is tricoloured (red/yellow/green) and filaments are deep red. The superior ovary has an […]

General Info – summary This thickset, deciduous Tree with its soft corky bark & rounded crown is up to 10m high and may have scattered spines. The trifoliate Leaves have leaflets that are 3-veined from the asymmetric base. Bisexual, zygomorphic, orange to scarlet Flowers are hairy & in racemes. 9 joined+1 stamens and a superior […]

General Info – summary This Tree–like plant is evergreen, non-woody, lacks branches and bark. The trunk may reach 12m high and has densely packed, imbricated petioles bases. Large, simple light green Leaves have a bright red or orange midrib. Lateral veins run parallel up to the margin. Usually, unisexual Flowers occur in spikes. This monocarpic plant has […]

General Info – summary This hardy Tree with light brown or grey bark & a shortish, thick trunk may reach 15m x 30cm. Non-toxic milky latex is released from damaged parts. Simple Leaves are leathery. The surface is glossy dark green above & yellow-orange below. Small, regular, cauliflorous Flowers are bisexual. 5 stamens & a […]

General Info – summary This southern African endemic is an attractive fast growing, dioecious Plant – up to 20cm high with a mainly subterranean stem. The crown of pinnately compound Leaves may reach 6m wide. Leaflets size decreases down the leaf becoming spiny. The up to 5 Male Cones have motile sperm. Pollinators are beetles. […]