
General Info – summary Tree to 15m high, has watery latex + smooth trunk + corky bark. Simple, alternate and ovate/triangular Leaves have serrated margins and may be hairy. Distinctively thin petiole is up to 10cm long. Unisexual monoecious, and greenish-yellow Flowers are in racemes, with fewer smaller female flowers at the base. Male has […]

General Info – summary Unarmed deciduous Tree has high branches, a flattish crown & may reach 25m high. Trunk is up to 1,2m wide. Alternate imparipinnate Leaves have widely spaced leaflets. Bisexual or male Flowers develop with new leaves in racemes. They are irregular and lack petals. The mass of golden stamens is distinctive. A […]

General Info – summary This deciduous Tree with light brown smooth bark, is up to 20m high. Alternative Leaves develop at branch ends and are soft, thin, simple, and ovate with long thin petioles lacking stipules. Flowers are tiny, sweetly scented, white, 5-merous, regular, bisexual or male. Stamens are epipetalous. The superior ovary has 2 fertile […]

General Info – summary This resinous Tree has a single trunk up to 6m high and spines are present. Leaves are simple (usually) or trifoliate. This dioecious tree has small unisexual, regular, 4-merous, bell-shaped and yellowish Flowers. Male flowers with 8 stamens in 2 whorls. Staminodes are present in female flowers (with 1 pistil). The […]

General Info – summary This stout and spiny Tree trunk is up to 10m high and 40cm wide. Bark contains resin ducts. Olive green Leaves are imparipinnate. Spaced leaflets have serrated margins. Flowers are small, dioecious regular & yellowish. 4-merous male Flowers have didynamous stamens. Female flowers have 1 pistil & a superior ovary. The […]

General Info – summary This dioecious, hairy Tree has greyish, smooth, shiny and resinous bark up to 8m high. Imparipinnate, hairy Leaves have leaflets with 2-6 pair of opposite leaflets and a single terminal one. The margins are entire, and stipules are absent. Regular, small, yellowish to pinkish 4-merous & actinomorphic Flowers. Female flowers have a […]