Here is the explanationKlipspringer wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:13 pmI tried to find out, to no avail.
My story is: This is a very good tree to hide in or behind when you are chased by buffalo.
Or: This is a very good tree to build a kraal to protect your homestad from buffalo.
However, why not lion thorn then
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Hmmm! A buffalo will probably always use that tactic, whatever kind of bush or tree it can back into. Someone must have seen a buffalo doing it with a buffalo thorn and the name has stuck
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I don't know, but it would be a logical move, if the buffalo would consider it
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Medium tree, 5m, Marloth
No hairy leaves nor thorns!
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I don't think that there are birches in SA and fever trees do not have branches so far down
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