Loxostylis alata

Trees

Loxostylis alata Wild Pepper Tree (E) Tarwood (E) Tigerwood (E) Teerhout (A) Breekhout (A) Tierhout (A) Wilde Peperboom (A) Isibara (Z, X)   Description The sole species of its genus, the Tarwood is a superbly beautiful, hardy, single or multi-stemmed, much branched,...

Acokanthera oppositifolia

Trees

Acokanthera oppositifolia Bushman’s Poison (Bush) (E) Common Poison-bush (E) Hottentots Poison-bush (E) Poison Plum (E) Boesmansgif (A) Gewone Gifbom (A) Boesmanspyl (A) iNtlungunyembe (X) inHlungunyembe (Z) Description An exceptionally attractive, hardy, upright,...

Rawsonia lucida

Trees

Forest Peach (E) Bosperske (A) iThambo (Z) umLongo (X)    Generall DESCRIPTION A highly attractive shrub or small tree, with grey to reddish-green, mottled bark, spreading, often elegantly sweeping branches and a curved crown of long, shiny, sharply toothed leaves....

Podocarpus henkelii

Trees

Podocarpus henkelii Henkel’s yellowwood (E) Falcate Yellowwood (E) Drooping-leaved Yellowwood (E) Long-leaved Yellowwood Henkel-se-Geelhout (A) umSonti (Z) Description A fine, medium to very large and tall, evergreen tree, with a typically straight, well-formed trunk...

Combretum kraussii

Trees

Combretum kraussii Forest Bushwillow (E) Bosvaderlandswilg (A) uhwabhu (Z) ulandile (X) modlubu (NS) muvuvhu-wa-thavhani (V)    Description A shrub, small or medium to tall tree, with single or multi-stemmed trunk of flaking, grey bark, often branching low down, and a...

Ziziphus mucronata

Trees

Buffalo-thorn (E) Cat-Thorn (E) Blinkblaar-wag-‘n-bietjie (A) Buffelsdoring (A) Haakdoring (A) umPhafa (X) umLahlankosi (Z) Mutshetshete (V) Mokgalo (T) Mokhalo (S) General DESCRIPTION One of the most adaptable and widespread of all indigenous trees, with a rich...