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Saturday, 1 December 2012

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Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Acacia Xanthophloea


Acacia xanthophloea is a tree in the Fabaceae family and is commonly known in English as the Fever Tree (local East African names include Olerai, Kimwea, Murera, and Mwelele). This species of Acacia is native to eastern and southern Africa. It can be found in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It has also become a 
Landscape tree in other warm climates, outside of its natural range.




Syzygium Cormiflorum


Syzygium cormiflorum, commonly known as the bumpy satinash, is a species of Syzygium tree native to Queensland in Northeastern Australia.



Monday, 29 October 2012

Rhus Leptodictya


Rhus leptodictya is known as Mountain Karee in English, Bergkaree in Afrikaans, and Mohlwehlwe in Sotho. An evergreen tree reaching a height of 5 metres and a similar spread, it is drought resistant but only semi frost hardy.



Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Castanospermum Australe

Castanospermum australe (Moreton Bay Chestnut or Blackbean), the only species in the genus Castanospermum, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the east coast of Australia in Queensland and New South Wales, and to the Pacific islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia.

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Pachypodium Lamerei


It has large thorns and leaves mostly just at the top of the plant. It is a stem succulent and comes from the island Madagascar.
The plant bears large, fragrant flowers.

Schotia Brachypetala


Schotia brachypetala is a handsome, medium to large tree with a wide-spreading, densely branched, rounded crown. It has a single trunk that sometimes branches low down. Trees can reach a height of 22 m, but most commonly grow 11 to 16 m with a spread of 1?, Schotia brachypetala or Huilboerboon is a leguminous flowering tree in the family Fabaceae
(bean family/pod-bearing family/legumes) and the sub-family Caesalpinioideae. It has many common names, including (but not limited to) Weeping Boerbean, Huilboerboom.

Thursday, 21 June 2012

Musa

Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae; it includes bananas and plantains. There are over 50 species of Musa with a broad variety of uses. Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain plants are not woody and their apparent "stem" is just the bases of the huge leaf stalks.


Friday, 20 April 2012

Cordyline Australis

Cordyline australis (elegant tree having either a single trunk or a branching trunk each with terminal clusters of long narrow leaves and large panicles of fragrant white, yellow or red flowers; New Zealand)