South African Indigenous Plant Catalogue

Acacia abyssinica

Acacia abyssinica (=Vachellia abyssinica) is a hardy, deciduous (in Gauteng) to semi-deciduous, large tree that develops a distinctly flat top. The very dark brown to black bark is papery and peels off in big pieces on younge...

Acacia ataxacanthaIn Stock

Acacia ataxacantha (=Senegalia ataxacantha) is a hardy, deciduous Acacia that can grow as a scrambling shrub or medium sized tree with many hooked prickles. It is drought resistant and fairly fast-growing. The fine leaves are either bright...

Acacia brevispicaIn Stock

Acacia brevispica (=Senegalia brevispica) is a hardy, semi-deciduous, robust, prickly, scrambling Acacia that can be trained into a large beautiful shrub. It has feathery, large, soft, bipinnate leaves with small hook thorns along the rib...

Acacia burkeiIn Stock

Acacia burkei (=Senegalia burkei) is a hardy, deciduous, medium sized Acacia that has attractive, large round leaflets. Spikes of white flowers from October to January are followed by bright red seed pods. This beautiful specimen tr...

Acacia caffraIn Stock

Acacia caffra (=Senegalia caffra) is a very hardy, deciduous, drought resistant, graceful tree with feathery foliage that gives the tree a weeping shape. Fragrant, creamy-white flower spikes are borne from September to November along with...

Acacia davyiIn Stock

Acacia davyi (=Vachellia davyi) is a hardy, drought resistant, deciduous, small Acacia with distinctive yellow or light brown, corky bark on the stems and branches. It has clusters of bright yellow puffball flowers on the ends of the ...

Acacia erioloba

Acacia erioloba (= Vachellia erioloba) is a very hardy, beautiful Thorn Tree from South Africa that is slow growing but tolerates harsh growing conditions. It has typical fine, feathery leaves and straight white spines. The bark is deeply ...

Acacia galpiniiIn Stock

Acacia galpinii (=Senegalia galpinii) is a very hardy fairly fast growing, deciduous thorn tree and is one of the largest of the Acacias. It flowers before the leaves in September and October with showy, white, bottlebrush-type flowers...

Acacia gerrardiiIn Stock

Acacia gerrardii (=Vachellia gerrardii) is a hardy, fairly fast-growing, drought-resistant, deciduous Acacia. It has a long, straight stem that starts branching high up to form a flattish crown. As it is sparsely branched and throws li...

Acacia grandicornutaIn Stock

Acacia grandicornuta (Vachellia grandicornuta) is a hardy, deciduous, small to medium sized tree with a sparse rounded crown. The bark on the tree stem is deeply, longitudinally fissured and dark grey, while the young zigzagging branches ar...