Index to Trees & Shrubs in the Order Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
723.4 Gymnanthemum coloratum Star-flowered Vernonia, Lowveld Tree Vernonia viewtopic.php?p=530772#p530772
733. Tarchonanthus camphoratus Camphor Bush viewtopic.php?p=222808#p222808
Africa Wild Tree & Shrub Book - Order Asterales
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733. Camphor Bush Tarchonanthus camphoratus (Wildekanferbos, Vaalbos)
Order: Asterales. Family: Asteraceae
Pilanesberg
Description
Evergreen shrub or small tree, 4-8 m tall, Slender, usually crooked trunk, and a bushy crown, usally much-branched with a narrow crown; bark brown or grey, rough, longitudinally fissured, exfoliating in long strips; young stems densely covered by white felt-like tomentum.
Leaves leathery, narrow, spirally arranged, oblong to elliptic, greyish-green above and greyish-white and velvety underneath. Finely-wrinkled, smell of camphor when crushed.
The creamy-white flowers are borne in a branched inflorescence on the terminal end of the branch. Bunches of white-grey fluffy flower heads, more or less covered in white woolly hairs. Each flower up to 1.2 cm long.
The fruit is small nutlet covered with fluffy cottonwool-like hairs, and are produced mostly in March to November. These woolly, white fruiting heads are strongly scented and most attractive. Male and female flowers are borne on separate trees.
Distribution
Native to Angola, Ethiopa, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbawe. Provincial distribution in South Africa: Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West.
Habitat
It grows in thickets of bushveld, grassland, forest and semi-desert. It grows mostly in sandy soils in the low-lying and sand forest of the coast.
Order: Asterales. Family: Asteraceae
Pilanesberg
Description
Evergreen shrub or small tree, 4-8 m tall, Slender, usually crooked trunk, and a bushy crown, usally much-branched with a narrow crown; bark brown or grey, rough, longitudinally fissured, exfoliating in long strips; young stems densely covered by white felt-like tomentum.
Leaves leathery, narrow, spirally arranged, oblong to elliptic, greyish-green above and greyish-white and velvety underneath. Finely-wrinkled, smell of camphor when crushed.
The creamy-white flowers are borne in a branched inflorescence on the terminal end of the branch. Bunches of white-grey fluffy flower heads, more or less covered in white woolly hairs. Each flower up to 1.2 cm long.
The fruit is small nutlet covered with fluffy cottonwool-like hairs, and are produced mostly in March to November. These woolly, white fruiting heads are strongly scented and most attractive. Male and female flowers are borne on separate trees.
Distribution
Native to Angola, Ethiopa, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbawe. Provincial distribution in South Africa: Free State, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West.
Habitat
It grows in thickets of bushveld, grassland, forest and semi-desert. It grows mostly in sandy soils in the low-lying and sand forest of the coast.
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723.4 Star-flowered Vernonia, Lowveld Tree Vernonia Gymnanthemum coloratum
Order Asterales. Family Asteraceae
Kruger National Park © mposthumus
Description
Shrub or small tree, 3 to 6 m tall. Main stem to 7 cm thick, much-branched; branches and twigs with reddish hairs.
The leaves are alternate, dark green and sparsely hairy above, paler and thinly woolly below, twice as long as wide. The margins may be entire or serrated and wavy. The veins are prominent on both surfaces.
Flowers in large terminal, rather loose heads to 28 cm across, mauve to whitish, sweetly scented. Flowering time: March to September.
The fruit is a small nutlet (achene) crowned with a tuft of stiff bristle-like hairs.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga Lowveld and foothills of the escarpment, extending southwards through eSwatini to the southern end of the Lebombo Mountains in KwaZulu-Natal. It is widespread north of South Africa to tropical Africa.
Provincial distribution in South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga.
Habitat
Woodland and riverine thicket.
Order Asterales. Family Asteraceae
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Description
Shrub or small tree, 3 to 6 m tall. Main stem to 7 cm thick, much-branched; branches and twigs with reddish hairs.
The leaves are alternate, dark green and sparsely hairy above, paler and thinly woolly below, twice as long as wide. The margins may be entire or serrated and wavy. The veins are prominent on both surfaces.
Flowers in large terminal, rather loose heads to 28 cm across, mauve to whitish, sweetly scented. Flowering time: March to September.
The fruit is a small nutlet (achene) crowned with a tuft of stiff bristle-like hairs.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga Lowveld and foothills of the escarpment, extending southwards through eSwatini to the southern end of the Lebombo Mountains in KwaZulu-Natal. It is widespread north of South Africa to tropical Africa.
Provincial distribution in South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga.
Habitat
Woodland and riverine thicket.