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Vachellia abyssinica, the flat top acacia, is a tree up to 16 m tall. Description ... On younger trees it is pale yellowish-brown, peeling off in papery wads. Young ...
Burkea africana is a tree growing from 4 to 20 meters high. [1] Leaves are bipinnately compound, silvery pubescent or glabrescent. Flowers are creamy white, fragrant and in pendulous racemes of up to 300 mm in length. The bark is toxic, rich in alkaloids and tannins and used for tanning leather. Pulverised bark is thrown into water to paralyse ...
Vachellia tortilis, widely known as Acacia tortilis but now attributed to the genus Vachellia, [4] is the umbrella thorn acacia, also known as umbrella thorn and Israeli babool, [5] a medium to large canopied tree native to most of Africa, primarily to the savanna and Sahel of Africa (especially the Somali peninsula and Sudan), but also occurring in the Middle East.
Trees of Africa — tree species native to the diverse ecoregions of Africa. For the purposes of this category, " Africa " is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD), namely as one of the nine "botanical continents".
Albizia adianthifolia is cultivated as an ornamental tree. The attractive habit of these trees makes them a popular garden tree, often being retained as a native plant in suburban gardens when other indigenous vegetation is removed. [2] The trees usually produce abundant seeds which are easily grown in sandy soil. [2]
Vachellia xanthophloea (previously Acacia xanthophloea) is a tree in the family Fabaceae, commonly known in English as the fever tree. [3] This species of Vachellia is native to eastern and southern Africa (Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe). It has also become a landscape tree in ...
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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.