
General Info – summary Usually dioecious, small shrub or Tree to 5m high has resinous twigs and leaves. Finely fissured grey bark has red underbark. Simple, narrow, hairless & entire Leaves lack stipules. Small, wind pollinated, 4-merous Flowers in racemes and lack petals. Male flowers have 4-8 stamens. The Female superior ovary has 2 ovules per […]

Diospyros whyteana General Info – summary The dioecious spineless and widespread evergreen Tree seldom reaches 14m high, has a trunk up to 30cm wide and lacks milky sap. The attractive glossy and visibly hairy Leaves are simple with entire margins. Small, regular, white and pendulous Flowers are 5-merous. Male with 10 stamens. Female flowers have a hairy […]

Diospyros mespiliformis General Info – summary This impressive, ecologically important, dioecious Tree with its branched crown is without milky sap & is up t0 20m high, or it may be a shrub. Longitudinal fissured bark is dark. Initially reddish, simple & entire Leaves have short petioles and lack stipules. Small white/yellowish, 4 or 5-merous, regular […]

Diospyros lycioides subsp. guerkei General Info – summary This shortish Tree has a smooth bark and may also be a shrub. Milky sap & thorns are absent. The spirally arranged, leathery, hairy Leaves are simple & rest on a short petiole. The solitary creamy white to yellow actinomorphic and 5-merous Flowers are functionally unisexual. Male flowers have […]

Diospyros austro-africana subsp. austro-africana General Info – summary This evergreen, dioecious Tree has fissured bark and may reach 10m high. It is usually a shrub with rigid branches. On this densely leafed tree, the small obovate and hairy Leaves are simple and have entire margins, which taper into the short or absent petiole. The apex […]

Dichrostachys cinerea subsp. africana General Info – summary This small, rounded Tree is up to 7m high, with single spines originating from hardened branches. The deeply fissured bark is dark grey. Leaves are bipinnate and glands may appear on the rachis but not on the petiole. Different coloured, bisexual, regular, 5-merous Flowers are in spikes […]