Sterculia africana
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Habit
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Bark
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Leaves
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Seed capsules
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| Family: | Sterculiaceae |
| Full name: | Sterculia africana (Lour.) Fiori |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Afrikaanse sterkastaiing, Bosluisboom |
| English common name(s): | Tick tree, African star-chestnut |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Medium sized tree with a stout trunk. Bark smooth silvery-grey, often mottled with purple-brown, peeling. Leaves crowded near the ends of branches, broadly ovate-cordate in outline, variously 3-5- lobed. Flowers in compact terminal panicles, greenish-yellow with reddish guide lines, appearing before the leaves; sexes separate on the same tree. Fruit consisting of 1-5 beaked carpels, each splitting down one side, golden velvety on the outside; mouth fringed with highly irritant hairs, which protect the blue-black, tick-like seeds. (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iSpot Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 01 Sep 2012 |
