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After the rains, flowers.
We took a walk in Harare’s National Botanic Garden.
These were flowers on the aptly-named Fried-egg bush, also known as mushwawo. Their dried fruits make excellent rattles.
We took a walk in Harare’s National Botanic Garden.
These were flowers on the aptly-named Fried-egg bush, also known as mushwawo. Their dried fruits make excellent rattles.
The Lesser millettia, or kava-kava was covered in its distinctive pea-shaped flowers.
It’s related to the famous panga-panga tree, exploited in Mozambique for its fine timber.
It’s related to the famous panga-panga tree, exploited in Mozambique for its fine timber.
Our #TreeSociety walk was focussing on Albizia trees, and this one was still in flower: the Sickleleaf albizia, or muchangiza.
In addition to those 'shaving brush' flowers, it has eye-catching bark that looks as thick as a tyre tread.
In addition to those 'shaving brush' flowers, it has eye-catching bark that looks as thick as a tyre tread.
It wasn’t only trees in flower. We were treated to the sight of the yellow bauhinia (more a shrub than a tree) with its yellow petals daubed with blotches of maroon.
In the north it’s known as kapondopondo, in the south-east as chisinze.
In the north it’s known as kapondopondo, in the south-east as chisinze.
And we had a lucky sighting of a flowering succulent that in the wild is only found in the south-east.
It’s English name is sickle-leaf mother-in-law's-tongue.
The first sample for science was collected in the Birchenough Bridge area in 1957.
#Zimbabwe #naturenotes
It’s English name is sickle-leaf mother-in-law's-tongue.
The first sample for science was collected in the Birchenough Bridge area in 1957.
#Zimbabwe #naturenotes
