
Searsia tumulicola var. tumulicola General Info – Summary This dioecious plant is usually a shrub. The Tree is small and may reach 4m high. Mature bark is rough and fissured. Hairless, leathery, deciduous and elliptic or obovate Leaves are trifoliate. The leaflets usually lack petiolules. Small unisexual 5-merous Flowers are in panicles. Male: 5 stamens, […]

Searsia pyroides General Info – summary This dioecious shrub or Tree is up to 6m high. Stout spines and lenticels may be visible on young down bending branches. The trifoliate Leaves have elliptic to ovate leaflets lacking stipules & petiolules. The yellow tiny 5-merous regular Flowers are in panicles developing at branch ends or leaf […]

Searsia pendulina General Info – summary This sturdy, dioecious Tree with its narrowish trunk and smooth branches may reach 9m high. Spines and lenticels may be visible on young branches. The trifoliate, hairless Leaves have sharp pointed narrow leaflets with entire margins. Unisexual, regular, tiny, 5-merous Flowers are in panicles. Male with 5 stamens, Female: […]

Searsia leptodictya General Info – Summary This dioecious Tree may reach 5m+ high and has a longitudinally furrowed dark trunk. Young branches have reddish lenticels. The trifoliate Leaves usually have scalloped or toothed leaflets that are close to 90 degrees from the central leaflet. Regular yellowish white 5-merous Flowers are unisexual. The round, flattened & shiny […]

Searsia lancea General Info – Summary This dioecious Tree is up to 9m high; with its brown/black fissured bark. Branches are reddish. The usually evergreen tree has trifoliate Leaves, no stipules or petiolules & leaflets are narrow and usually lanceolate. Tiny yellowish, regular 5-merous Flowers in panicles. Male 5 stamens and female has 1 pistil, […]

Searsia chirindensis General Info – summary These dioecious and semi deciduous shrubs or erect Trees may reach 25m high – usually much less. A cut stem may yield blood red sap. Trunk is up to 1,3m wide. Trifoliate Leaves have large initially reddish leaflets. Tiny, 5-merous, regular Flowers develop in panicles. Male: 5 anthers. Female […]