
General Info: summary Albizia adianthifolia var. adianthifolia. This spineless Tree with a wide spreading crown is 25m+ high. Twigs are hairy. Alternate, horizontally growing Leaves are bipinnate. The almost rectangular leaflets have a diagonal midrib and large non-spinescent shield like stipules. This monoecious tree has regular 5-merous creamy-white Flowers with many exerted stamens. The dehiscent, […]

Afrocanthium gilfillanii General Info: summary This spineless, deciduous, and drought resistant Tree is 4m+ high, and grey smooth young bark becomes fluted. Thin, soft, paired, opposite simple Leaves have entire margins and small triangular stipules. Small, regular Flowers have a disc and are in cymes. 5 stamens arise from the corolla mouth. A single pistil […]

General Info: summary This spineless Plant has a smooth, grey-green bark and thickset succulent stem with watery toxic latex, rarely reaching 3,6m high. Simple, entire, hairless Leaves have axillary glands and entire margins. Bisexual, regular Flowers have white petals enclosed in red. Anthers 4 (filaments short). 1 pistil with a superior ovary & short style. […]

Adenia fruticose General Info – summary This perennial climber & pachycaul Tree to 1m wide & 2m high + whip-like branches ending in climbing tendrils. Leaves 3-5 leaflets. The dioecious greenish white Flowers + petals much narrower than the sepals. Male flowers: rudimentary ovary & stamens shorter than petals. Female flower: Staminodes + 5 petals. […]

General Info – summary This pachycaul & spineless Tree has smooth bark may reach 15+m high & 12+m wide. This deciduous tree has simple Leaves that become digitate. Large, short lasting, night opening, white, waxy, bisexual & actinomorphic Flowers have protruding stamens surrounding the superior ovary with its simple style. Fruit is a woody indehiscent […]

Acokanthera oppositifolia General Info – summary This unarmed usually sparsely branched Tree is up to 7m high and has poisonous latex. Bark becomes dark and deeply fissured. Simple Leaves are decussate, lack stipules & side veins reach the margins. The attractive, reddish white, regular, 5-merous Flowers are bisexual. Anthers and stigma do not emerge through […]