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Types of TREE plants

Acacia/Vachellia xanthophloea

The fever tree is an attractive, semi-deciduous to deciduous tree approximately 15 to 25 meters tall and has an open, rounded to spreading or flattish crown which is sparsely foliated

  • PLANT NAME: Acacia/Vachellia xanthophloea
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Fever Tree
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Koorsboom
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Semi-deciduous to deciduous
  • HEIGHT: 15m-25m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring, Early Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: Yellow
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Clay, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 20kg

Dombeya rotundifolia

A small, shapely tree with a dark brown, deeply longitudinally furrowed bark. The hairy leaves are broadly ovate to almost circular, strongly 5-veined from the base, upper surface rought and dark green, paler below. The flowers are white (sometimes lightly pink), sweetly scented and appear before the leaves in spring. The fruit is an almost spherical capsule with silky hairs.

  • PLANT NAME: Dombeya rotundifolia
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Wild pear
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Drolpeer
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Deciduous
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 3-7m x 2-4m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring, Early Summer, Winter
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: White
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 20kg

Ficus Hawaii

A fast growing and decorative evergreen tree with a lovely bushy habit.  Hawaii has large variegated leaves in dark green to grey-green and white.

  • PLANT NAME: Ficus Hawaii
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Exotic
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT: 1-3m
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Low → moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Clay, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 23cm

Ficus ingens

Ficus ingens is an evergreen tree with a briefly deciduous period, with a rounded or spreading crown. All the parts have milky latex when broken. The bark is grey, smooth and becomes cracked in older specimens.

  • PLANT NAME: Ficus ingens
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Red leaved rock fig
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Rooiblaarvy
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Semi-deciduous
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 1-12m x 4-6m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Early Summer, Sporadic/All year
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm

Ficus microcarpa

This hardy tree is an exceptional option to clip into a topiary standard or ‘lollipop’. In ‘wilder’ garden settings it also works excellently as a screening hedge that can be tamed to any height desired. Can also grow into a dense shade tree.

  • PLANT NAME: Ficus microcarpa
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Curtain fig, Indian laurel
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Exotic
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT: 1-3m
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Low → moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Clay, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 10kg

Harpephyllum caffrum

The main stem is clean and straight. The bark is smooth when young, becoming rough, dark grey-brown as it grows older. Branches are curved bowed upwards, with leaves crowded towards the ends, forming a thick crown at the top of the tree.

  • PLANT NAME: Harpephyllum caffrum
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Cape plum
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Wilde Pruim
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 11-15m x 12m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring, Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: Cream, Yellow
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 10kg, 20kg

Ilex Mitis

Ilex mitis is an evergreen tree, with a straight trunk and a rounded canopy. Bark on the young tree is a pale grey-brown with patches of white. It has smooth, fine, transverse ridges and yellow-brown corky specks. As the tree becomes older it becomes evenly whitish-grey with dark rough spots.

  • PLANT NAME: Ilex Mitis
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Cape holly, African holly
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Waterhout
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT: 3-25m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring, Early Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: White
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 20kg

Kiggelaria africana

Well-shaped and reasonably robust, the low-branching, wild peach has smooth, pale grey bark that becomes rough with age. The variable leaves of this evergreen tree may resemble those of the peach, with tiny, bell-shaped flowers in between.

  • PLANT NAME: Kiggelaria africana
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Wild peach
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Wildeperske
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 4-13m x 3-10m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring, Early Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: Cream
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Clay, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 4kg, 20kg

Prunus cerasifera nigra

A medium-sized, round-headed deciduous tree with deep blackish-purple leaves and twigs. Single, pale pink flowers open from deep pink buds before the leaves

  • PLANT NAME: Prunus cerasifera nigra
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Black cherry plum
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Exotic
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Deciduous
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH:2-7m x 1-6m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: Pink
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 4kg, 10kg, 100kg

Rothmannia globosa

The bark is brown or dark grey, smooth when young but rougher in old age and marked in rectangular segments. The shiny simple leaves are oval or lanceolate with a paler underside which displays the yellow or reddish midrib and veins.

  • PLANT NAME: Rothmannia globosa
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: September bells, Bell gardenia
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Klokkies-valskatjiepiering
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 6m x 4m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring, Early Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: White, Cream
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 10kg

Strelitzia nicolai

It is an evergreen tree with multi-stems that form dense clumps. The stem is woody and smooth in texture. Attached to the stem by long, thick leaf stalks are the enormous, opposite leaves that are shiny and grey-green.

  • PLANT NAME: Strelitzia nicolai
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Natal wild banana
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Natalse wildepiesang
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 8-12m x 4m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Sporadic/All year
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: Blue, White
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Clay, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 23cm

Syzygium cordatum

An evergreen, water-loving tree. The leaves are elliptic to circular, bluish green on top and a paler green below. Young leaves are reddish. The white to pinkish fragrant flowers are borne in branched terminals

  • PLANT NAME: Syzygium cordatum
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Water berry
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Waterbessie
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 3-15m x 2-6m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring/ Early Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: White, Pink
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Shade → semi shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate→ High
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 20kg

Syzygium cordatum

An evergreen, water-loving tree. The leaves are elliptic to circular, bluish green on top and a paler green below. Young leaves are reddish. The white to pinkish fragrant flowers are borne in branched terminals

  • PLANT NAME: Syzygium cordatum
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Water berry
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Waterbessie
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indigenous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 3-15m x 2-6m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring/ Early Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: White, Pink
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Shade → semi shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate→ High
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 20kg

Syzygium paniculatum

A bushy tree with a light brown-grey trunk and densely packed foliage. Its leaves are a glossy, dark green on top and slightly faded below.

  • PLANT NAME: Syzygium paniculatum
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Eugenia myrtofolia, Australian bush-cherry
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Exotic
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 5m x 2m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Spring, Early Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: White, Cream
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE:Full sun → semi shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Moderate
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 6kg, 10kg, 20kg