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This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. [1] The notion of 'indigenous' is of necessity a blurred concept, and is clearly a function of both time and political boundaries.
Musanga cecropioides, the African corkwood tree or umbrella tree, is found in tropical Africa from Sierra Leone south to Angola and east to Uganda. It is typical in secondary forests . This tree is also known as parasolier , n'govoge , govwi , doe , kombo-kombo , musanga , and musanda .
Cordyla africana is a tall (up to 25 m or 82 ft), deciduous African tree with a large, spreading, much-branched crown, and a bole of some 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) dbh.It is a member of the large leguminous family Fabaceae, and is known as wild mango in some areas.
Common names include common yellowwood, bastard yellowwood, outeniqua yellowwood, [2] African pine tree, weeping yew, [3] Afrikaans: outeniekwageelhout, kalander, Sotho: mogôbagôba, Xhosa: umkhoba and Zulu: umsonti. [4] It is widespread, in some areas abundant, and not considered threatened, [1] but it is a protected tree in South Africa. [4]
Commonly known as the Outeniqua yellowwood, is a tall tree, generally 10–25 m high, but growing up to 60 m. It is native to montane forests Afrocarpus gracilior: East African yellowwood: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda: Used in gardens as a tree, hedge, screen, or espalier; generally, it is sold as Podocarpus gracilior. Afrocarpus mannii
Vachellia erioloba, the camel thorn, also known as the giraffe thorn, mokala tree, or Kameeldoring in Afrikaans, still more commonly known as Acacia erioloba, is a tree of southern Africa in the family Fabaceae. [3] Its preferred habitat is the deep dry sandy soils in parts of South Africa, Botswana, the western areas of Zimbabwe and Namibia.