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Wild Seringa
Wildesering · Burkea africana
A characteristic tree of deep sandy soils, often growing in loose stands. Its rusty-red spring leaves can make whole groves glow before they turn green.
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A medium, flat-topped, spreading deciduous tree with a rounded crown. Feathery, twice-compound leaves cluster at the tips of knobbly branches, and the velvety new growth flushes a striking coppery-red.
Flowers & fruit
Spring (roughly Sep-Nov), with pendulous creamy-white fragrant flower spikes
Browsed by
Leaves and pods browsed by kudu, elephant and other browsers; the foliage is also the sole food plant of two kinds of edible caterpillars.
Where to see it in Kruger
On deep sandy soils, especially the sandveld of the far north and other sandy patches, often forming loose stands.
Did you know
Its leaves are the only food of two kinds of edible caterpillars that are harvested by the thousand in the rains, making the tree an important traditional food source.
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