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English: Monkey Thorn
A popular Acacia with rough, corky bark. This is a common choice as a bonsai specimen, but is best used as a large tree in the garden. The flowers are creamy-yellow and sweetly scented. Thorn trees are also a favorite choice as nesting sites for birds. A relatively fast-growing and cold hardy tree.
Location: Gauteng, NW Province, Botswana, Limpopo, Mphumalanga
Afrikaans: Soetdoring
English: Sweet Thorn
A beautiful sight in full flower with bright yellow balls covering the whole tree. Widespread from dunes to grassland, variable shape but easily pruned by removing the lower branches to form an attractive flattened crown. Feed and water regularly in the growing season.
Location: Widespread in S. A.often on alluvial plains and near water.
Afrikaans: Papierbasdoring
English: Paperbark Thorn
Large deciduous tree occuring in woodland and wooded grassland. Attractive corky bark. Fragrant white or cream ball shaped flowers are carried from September to November.
Location: Mpumalanga, KZN, Limpopo, Swaziland, Gauteng
Afrikaans: Koorsboom
English: Fever Tree
Graceful and fast growing with smooth yellow-green trunk and branches being its most striking feature. Flowers are sweetly scented fluffy yellow balls. Sparse rounded crown of light green foliage with long white thorns. Grows near rivers and swamps. Prune off lower branches to form single stemmed tree. Mulch thickly with good compost, water regularly and feed with high nitrogen organic or chemical fertilizer to boost growth.
Location: KZN, Limpopo, Mphumalanga, Swaziland
Erect shrublet with spiky silver-grey leaves, when planted in a pot and pruned to shape it makes a wonderful silver Christmas Tree! It is further decorated with tiny yellow pea shaped flowers. Plant in well drained sunny position. Responds well to light pruning, for best results feed lightly with slow release organic or 3:1:5 and avoid drying out completely.
Location: coastal flats George to PE (Sparrabosh)
Sprawling, handsome shrub to ±2m high with 3-4m spread, masses of large orange flowers in autumn making a striking display, followed by large pods. Excellent screen / hedge and planted with effect on road verges and along highways, very low maintenance, tolerates poor soil well . Plant in well drained sunny position.
Location: N. Natal, Swaziland and Mpumalanga
English: Natal Bauhinia
This delicate-looking shrub has small roundish leaves with medium-sized white flowers. Flowering starts in spring, but can last up to six months. Can reach up to 2-3m tall, with a lesser spread. Plant in a sunny, sheltered spot.
Location: Natal.
English: White Bauhinia
An evergreen, small tree or scrambler, ±5m tall. Typical deeply bilobal or 'cloven hoof' leaves. Fragile, white flowers with crisped margins, very beautiful and sweetly scented, appearing Dec-Jan. Fast growing and drought resistant, this is a very useful and attractive plant.
Location: Lesotho and N.E. F. S.