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Re: Plant Identification

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Ideas yes, identification no =O:

Senegalia senegal rostrata, Senegalia burkei or Senegalia caffra - difficult to say, I can't see the thorns and leaves clearly 0:


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Toko wrote:Ideas yes, identification no =O:

Senegalia senegal rostrata, Senegalia burkei or Senegalia caffra - difficult to say, I can't see the thorns and leaves clearly 0:
It's been suggested elsewhere that it might be a small Delagoa thorn (Acacia welwitschii delagoensis) ....


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Without leave and thorn deatil one can only say that it is a Senegalia (Acacia welwitschii delagoensis would be Senegalia welwitschii delagoensis according to more recent taxonomy.

These are the candidates lol and anything is possible
Senegalia burkei
Senegalia brevispica
Senegalia caffra
Senegalia erubescens
Senegalia polyacantha
Senegalia nigrescens
Senegalia senegal var. leiorachis
Senegalia senegal var. rostrata
Senegalia schweinfurthii
Senegalia welwitschii subsp. delagoensis


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Many thanks for the further explanation, Toko.


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Here are a couple more trees (I think that my 2nd & 3rd trees may be the same sort?) that I need ID help with, seen in November 2014 in central KNP.

1st tree, seen along the Timbavati (S39) road:
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2nd tree, seen in Tamboti camp (tent #40):
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3rd tree, also Tamboti camp (tent#40):
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Re: Plant Identification

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arks wrote:Here are a couple more trees (I think that my 2nd & 3rd trees may be the same sort?) that I need ID help with, seen in November 2014 in central KNP.

1st tree, seen along the Timbavati (S39) road:
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I think this might be an Ochna, Ochna pulchra or Ochna natalitia


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Toko wrote:
arks wrote:Here are a couple more trees (I think that my 2nd & 3rd trees may be the same sort?) that I need ID help with, seen in November 2014 in central KNP.

1st tree, seen along the Timbavati (S39) road:
I think this might be an Ochna, Ochna pulchra or Ochna natalitia
Interesting, because from googling and looking in my (very old) KNP tree book, it would seem that the Ochna species only/mainly occur in the very north (Pafuri and Punda) of the park. This tree, along the Timbavati road, was a lot farther south, but it also does look like a good match. Too bad that I didn't take any closer pix of the flowers :o0ps:

Thanks for again pointing the way, Toko! :ty:


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These are all flowers that I saw along the S36 in Kruger in mid-November 2014. I hope that it will be possible to ID them?

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Re: Plant Identification

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No 1 is an Ipomoea, there are many species and also invasive ones, the third of no 1 might be not the same as the first one, no 5. might be a Hibiscus


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thanks for these further details, Toko. The 3rd of #1 was a different plant, I'd just thought that they were the same sort, but I can now see that they might not be 0*\ And I'd not thought of hibiscus for #5 because the ones I notice are usually much taller. Many thanks for giving me some clues on these. O0


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