Records determined by Barbara Curtis

25 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 25 m tall. Single trunk, yellowish and somewhat powdery. Strong, paired, hooked thorns. Branches come out somewhat horizontally. Leaves large and feathery, with more than 15 pinnae pairs and a very large, squat, petiolar gland. Flowers: cream coloured, in long spikes. Fruits: pods papery - leathery, long and narrow, reddish brown.

8 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 8 m tall. Trunk simple, somewhat rough but yellowish. Spines long and narrow, younger ones short. Leaves with 15 pinnae pairs, pinnules small and closely packed. Large gland at base of first pinnae pair. Can get into very large trees with spreading canopy. Common. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

1.6 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.6 m high. Yellowish green stems. Straight white thorns with darker tips.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 25 m tall, with single trunk. Leaves: with pulvinus. Leaflets hairless, discolorous, slightly sickle-shaped with oblique midrib, opposite. Leaves alternate. Flowers: with 4 green sepals, boat-shaped, curled back. Two fused pinkish petals and 7 green stamens, whole flower very open. Fruits: pods large, dark, woody, with large black and red seeds inside.

2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 2 m high, small leaflets.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m high. Trunk rough and longitudinally fissured. Pods orange, leathery, flat. Flowers cream-coloured. Leaflets fine.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m high. Rough, longitudinally fissured bark. Stem, petioles and petiolules hairy. Stems green, flecked with white lenticels. Leaves and leaflets hang down, 1-3 pairs of leaflets and terminal one. 2 large stipules at leaf bases. Thick hairy petioles. Leaflets sometimes opposite, sometimes alternate. Leaves alternate. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

150 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 150 cm tall. Stems: dark green. Younger stems straw-coloured with longitudinal grooves or green striations. Leaves: large, leathery, bristle tipped. Fruit: spherical, pale red, short androgynophore, persistent sepals 4.

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub 4 m - edge of pan. Young pods. Common in places. Mopane woodland.

Tree; Notes: Shrubby tree, up to 2 m high, with very soft, floppy branches and hanging leaves. Branches reddish brown with white lenticels. Leaves opposite. Milky latex. Bright green. Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m high, with soft, hanging, bright green leaves. Uncommon. Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m tall. Stems: smooth, light brown with sharp spines. A single sharp spine at base of most leaves. Leaves: circular, velvety. Fruit: a round berry about 5 mm long, with a ring of persistent calyx at apex.

Shrub; Notes: Shrub.

170 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 170 cm tall. Stems: smooth, silver. Leaves: leathery, finely serrate apically. Fruits: clustered reddish brown seed cases, 2 valves, with chocolate brown seeds.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m high. Stem: rough, silvery. Leaves: whorled at ends of branches. Leaflets: small. Flowers: small, with 4 creamy petals and 4 stamens, in sprays on a long peduncle, arising away to leaves.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m high. Single, erect stem. Reddish brown. Leaves concolorous, smooth, soft. Hanging down.

Notes: Flowers: yellow trumpet flower with red lines in throat. Sandy plain. Mixed woodland.

80 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 80 cm tall, riverine. Stems: reddish-brown, hairy, with tiny, hooked, scattered thorns. Rachis hairy, glandular, with paired thorns between pinnae. Flowers in pink balls. Pods: in clusters. Very hairy and glandular.

150 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 150 cm tall. In a thicket of Mimosa and Sesbania. Pale pink flower balls. Glandular pods. Compound leaves that close when touched.

20 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 20 m tall, with rough bark, splitting into rectangular blocks, like a crocodiles skin. Leaves: bright green above, smooth and shiny, paler below. Flowers: axillary. Ovary with 2 rows of sepals (4 each, curled back), then a ring of creamy white petals standing erect, 10, then what looks like another ring of petals closed around the ovary, with the pistil protruding, no stigma. Fruit: oval, fleshy, with large pip. Orange/yellow.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 4 m high. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

1.2 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.2 m tall. Leaflets very large.

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 3 m tall. Leaves: long, up to 1.5 m (just the tip sampled). Clusters of oval green fruits on yellow green stalks, hanging down.

8 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 8 m high. A few very green fruit on. Palmate leaves. Discolorous. Burkea woodland.

Tree; Notes: Tree, up to 6 m, drooping crown. Leaves opposite to sub-opposite, leathery, slightly discolorous, fairly dark green. Sunken veins on upper surface - protruding veins on lower surface. Stem greenish brown with oval white lenticels. Fruit pear-shaped - 4 locules. Mopane woodland.

Notes: Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

10 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 10 m high. Stem: 4 thin, smooth grey stems, all growing together. Flowers: mauve/lilac. Fruit/seed: new pods reddish/green. Someone has dug a hole around the trunk and the tree is leaning.

Tree; Notes: Tree, 3 m tall. Main stem brown, young stems green. Leaflets fairly large. Habitat: river bank.

180 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Scrambling shrub, 180 cm tall, 2 m in diameter. Stems: brown to green. Leaves: blue-green, folded up along midrib, clustered on spiny lateral shoots. Fruit: oval, pendulous.