Africa Project

Hunter sondeen here. here are some quotes about the I.D. i found with a google search for th acacia mellifera from wikipedia: Acacia mellifera can manifest itself either as a multi-trunked bush up to seven meters high with more or less a funnel-shaped crown, but also as a small single-trunked tree, which can reach a height of up to nine meters. from www.worldagroforestrycentre.org: A. mellifera is a commonly occurring shrub on rangelands throughout the savannah in western, eastern and southern Africa. The terrain preference is rocky hillsides with rainfall along seasonal watercourses, mixed with other trees. If left unattended, especially if grazing is heavy and no fires check its spread, it may form dense, impenetrable thickets, 2-3 m high and sometimes hundreds of metres across for some reason, the two websites show two different height.

hey its hunter here is awebsite i found for the kuke shrub grewia flava http://www.sigridleger.de/book/index.html?/book/plants/pl_054.html

Stacy Here: I chose to look us the Acacia erioloba, and it used to be reffered to by the Acacia giraffae, because only giraffes would be able to graze on the hard to reach succulent leaves. A common name for it is the Camel thorn, because it has huge throns that grow from it, but i dont know where the camel part comes from. It can reach a hight of 17 meters, and it is a very dense and strong tree. The bark is a reddish brown colour, and it is a very extremely drought hardy plant. The seed pods that grow from it are ear shaped, and cattle usually graze upon that.

Quin Here: here is my trees webpage :Boscia albitrunca

cass- Grewia flava- Dense multi-stemmed shrub, up to 2 m tall, occasionally a taller small tree. Bark dark grey-brown; young branches velvety, becoming dark purple-black. Leaves alternate, often held upright, elliptic to oblanceolate-obovate, up to 7 × 2.5 cm, 3-veined from the almost symmetric base, grey-green above, paler below, finely hairy on both surfaces or more so below; margin finely to somewhat coarsely toothed. Flowers yellow fading to orange-brown, 1.5 cm in diameter, solitary or in few-flowered axillary heads. Fruit spherical or 2-lobed, c. 8 mm in diameter, reddish-brown when ripe, edible.  flava: yellow, referring to the flower colour, which is also yellow in many other species. In dry deciduous woodland, often on Kalahari sand. native to; Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, South Africa.  here is a site with a cool pic http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/image-display.php?species_id=138430&image_id=3

Jeremy: here is my trees webpage :jtree