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Celtis africana

Celtis africana  General Info – summary Deciduous Tree is to 12+m high and lacks spines.  Pale grey, smooth bark lacks warts.  Bright green spring simple Leaves: 3-veined from the base.  Tiny monoecious Flowers: no petals.  Male: 4-5 stamens.  Female usually has staminodes. 1-locular superior ovary contains 1 sessile ovary with 1 ovule.  Style has 2 […]

Catha edulis

Catha edulis General Info – summary This deciduous, spineless Tree with drooping branches is up to 15m+ high.  Simple pendulous and hairless Leaves have gland tipped serrations.  The often-pink petiole is grooved above.  Small, regular, bisexual, 5-merous Flowers are in cymes with green sepals and larger whitish petals.  The 5 stamens alternate with petals.  Fruit: […]

Cassinopsis ilicifolia

Cassinopsis ilicifolia General Info – summary This small glabrous, evergreen plant, has trailing branches and single sharp spines up to 6cm long. It is usually a shrub or a small Tree up to 6m high.  The simple, shiny and opposite Leaves lack stipules.  Small, whitish, bisexual, regular and 5-merous Flowers arise in panicles between leaf […]

Cassia abbreviata

Cassia abbreviata General Info – summary This unarmed Tree has a rounded crown, dark, longitudinal furrowed bark & is up to 11m high.  Alternate, paripinnate Leaves are at branch ends with widely spaced leaflets.  Golden yellow, bisexual, zygomorphic Flowers develop in racemes.  There are two different sized groups of stamens, and the single pistil has […]

Carissa macrocarpa

Carissa macrocarpa General Info – summary This Tree is up to 5m high or a much-branched shrub.  Distinctive paired, Y-shaped equal spines are up to 4,5 cm long.  Non-toxic milky latex is present.  Evergreen, leathery, hairless, simple Leaves are mucronate. Bisexual, actinomorphic, 5-merous white Flowers have a corolla + tubular base & imbricated lobes. Apiculate […]