
General Info – summary This evergreen endemic Tree is up to 6m high with light brown bark becoming dark. Smallish Leaves are deeply bilobed with roughly semi-circular lobes. The attractive white, bisexual, slightly zygomorphic, large, 5-merous Flowers have attached spathes. 5 white filaments + golden anthers. The superior ovary has 1 style & a green […]

Barringtonia racemosa General Info – summary This frost sensitive evergreen Tree, with its smoothish bark, is up to 20m high. Large, leathery, obovate simple Leaves are entire. The impressive evening opening, bisexual, actinomorphic, 4-merous Flowers are in long racemes. Many distinctive white and/or pink exserted stamens are present. The style extends the stigma beyond the […]

Balanites maughamii General Info – summary This Tree with a trunk width up 30+cm wide & 20m high has strong, usually unevenly forked spines. Bark is smoothish. The deciduous compound Leaves have 2 opposite leaflets with off-centre midribs and asymmetric bases. The small, greenish-yellow, bisexual, regular, scented and 5-merous Flowers are in axillary umbels. Ten […]

Atalaya alata General Info – summary This deciduous, much branched Tree with fluted trunk, sparse crown & warty bark is up to 12m high. The paripinnate and asymmetric Leaves are up to 22cm long. Leaflets are sickle shaped. Tiny, bisexual, white, 5-merous, Flowers in terminal panicles. Stamens: 10 with 2 aborted. Single pistil has a […]

Apodytes dimidiate subsp. dimidiate General Info – summary This variable evergreen Tree with smoothish bark may reach 20m high. Alternate spirally arranged simple Leaves with entire margins. Small, cream or white, regular, scented and 5-merous Flowers develop in cymose panicles. Free petals with attached stamens. Stamens 5. 1-locular pistil & a superior ovary. Small kidney-shaped Fruit is […]

Antidesma venosum General Info – summary This dioecious Tree with its greyish brown, rough, flaky bark is usually up to 8m high or is a shrub. The large alternate Leaves are simple, entire & with large stipules. 2 pairs of veins arise close to the base. The attractive, scented Flowers lack petals. Yellow males are […]