
Canthium inerme General Info – summary Tree with light to dark bark is up to 15m high, has decussate branches. Pairs of opposite, spines may be present. Simple ovate to oblong Leaves with entire margins are in opposite pairs near branch ends. Here domatia may be present. Minute greenish-yellow Flowers are in cymes and each […]

Calpurnia sericea General Info – summary This plant may be a small to 2m high Tree or a much-branched shrub. It is one of the smaller Calpurnia species. Soft, light green Leaves are imparipinnate with overlapping leaflets. Small, attractive yellow, 5-merous, zygomorphic Flowers are pea-like and develop in pendulous racemes. The green calyx contrasts with the […]

General Info – summary This Tree may be up to 15m high or a shrub. Bark ages to dark and rough. The imparipinnate light green Leaves have soft textured and entire leaflets + short, hairy petiolules. The rachis is hairy & grooved above. 5-merous, bright yellow zygomorphic Flowers are in racemes, with 10 stamens & […]

Calodendrum capense General Info – summary This Tree with its usually smooth trunk is up to 25m high in the forest. Large simple, opposite and entire Leaves are decussate & have oil glands (translucent dots) causing crushed leaves to smell of citrus. Spectacular bisexual 5-merous Flowers with pink petals have 5 striking staminodes and anthers with […]

Burkea africana General Info – summary This unarmed Tree is up 18m high with a trunk up to 80 cm wide. Broad branch ends are rusty red. Bipinnate Leaves end in a single, off-centre leaflet and have elliptic, well-spaced leaflets with an asymmetric base. The whitish, zygomorphic, 5-merous Flowers are in attractive pendulous spikes. 10 […]

Buddleja salviifolia General Info – summary Tree to 8m high, or a scrambling shrub. Roughly, rectangular branches hang down. Simple lanceolate, discolorous, decussate Leaves have green interpetiolar stipules. Scented, small, 4-merous, regular Flowers are in panicles. The 4 stamens stay within the flower mouth. The single pistil has a superior pubescent ovary. The ovoid, hairy […]