EVERGREEN
Combretum molle
FULL SUN
FROST HARDY
MEDIUM WATER REQUIREMENTS
FAST GROWER
FRAGRANT
ATTRACTS BIRDS
ATTRACTS INSECTS
FLOWER COLOUR:
AVERAGE SIZE:
12m x 9m
FLOWERING TIME:
J F M A M J J A S O N D
FRUITING TIME:
J F M A M J J A S O N D
Combretum molle
DESCRIPTION
A multi-stemmed tree with a dense crown. The bark is dark-grey, rough and fissured. The large, soft and velvety leaves turn bronze in autumn. The greenish-yellow flowers are heavily scented. The 4-winged fruit dries to a golden reddish-brown and remain on the tree into the following flowering season.
2 responses
Hi Peter
Thanks for visiting Plantbook.
Sure, you’re welcome to use some of my photographs. Let me know which ones you need and I can send them in a higher resolution.
Looking forward to seeing the final product which sounds very interesting as Gona-re Zhou is still on my bucket list.
Flourish!
Glenice
Just want to pinch a couple of photos. Am writing a “,book” for senior children to keep my 84 year old brain ticking over, all about the Shangaans in the Gona- re Zhou, a place I paced up and down from the beginning of the 1060s whilst employed as a field officer in the Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis dept vets. English. children know less than nothing about Africa.