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Strelitzia nicolai

General Info – summary This Tree with its ringed woody unbranched stem has a fan-shaped crown & is up to 12m high. Distichous, simple, often torn Leaves to 1,8 x 0,6m.  Big compound inflorescence has bisexual & irregular Flowers in a spathe.  Each flower has 3 (1 short) white protruding sepals & 2 of 3 […]

Sterculia rogersii

General Info – summary This squat, deciduous and monoecious Tree has a sparse crown, flaking bark & is up to 8m high.  Simple Leaves are 3-5 lobed with a cordate base.  Flowers.  Sepals are petaloid with distinctive red streaks.  Petals are absent.  Male: staminal tube + many stamens.  Female: Superior ovary with carpels & a […]

Sterculia murex.

General Info – summary Tree is up to 18m high, has a rounded canopy.  Rough bark is in segments or vertically fissured.  Palmately compound Leaves have up to 9 hairy leaflets.  Stipules and petiolules are absent.  The unisexual Flowers are in panicles and lack petals.  The petaloid calyx has distinctive red streaks.  The superior ovary […]

Stadmannia oppositifolia

General Info – summary This monoecious small to medium sized Tree is up to 8m high in SA – taller further north.  The distinctive bark has roughly mottled flakes.  Paripinnate Leaves lack stipules and the up to 4 pairs of leaflets are opposite and asymmetric.  Tiny unisexual, scented, 5-merous, racemose & unisexual Flowers lack petals. […]

Spirostachys africana

General Info – summary Monoecious Tree with a straight trunk is up to 10m high.  Poisonous white milky latex is present.  Simple Leaves may turn bright red before falling and have crenate margins with 2 glands at the leaf base.  Tiny unisexual, regular Flowers in spikes lack petals.  Male: 3 exerted stamens but no pistil. […]