Collections made by Barbara Curtis

3 m high; Tree; Notes: Young tree, 3 m tall. Single, fairly fat stem, smooth, grey. Leaves digitate - 1 to 5 fingers/leaflets, slippery, smooth, floppy leaves.

3 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 3 m high. Older stems brown, younger ones green, all very stiff and woody. Leaves with 2 leaflets below a spine. Mopane woodland, sandy plain.

Notes: Simple stem about 2 cm in diameter, with short lateral branches low down. Branches very stiff. Stem greenish, stiff succulent. Sessile leaves green, concolorous, in whorls. Spiny. Mopane woodland. Corr. nom.: SR 01.2008.

20 cm high; Herb; Notes: Ndebele - cook and eat. Herb, 20 cm high. Sell at the markets. Can dry the leaves. Only after rains. Mopane woodland.

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

4 m high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 4 m tall. Floppy branches. Voucher for Tree Atlas Project.

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.

Notes: Spiny green leaves curling at tips. Flowers orange with yellow edges to petals.

Notes: Strangler - whorled stem, very thick and twisting around trees. Can stand alone, up to 80 cm. Undulate large leaves, thick but not leathery - velvety. Milky latex. Mopane woodland, sandy plain.

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.

3 m high; Climber; Notes: Climber, 3 m high. Leaves: velvety, opposite and decussate, sessile. Stem: green. Fruit/seed: small green berries.

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.

160 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 160 cm tall, consist of 4 stems, rough, brown, with white lenticels. Milky latex. Leaves lanceolate, discolorous, velvety, especially below. Pods on tip of branch above leaves. Two woody, dehiscent valves.

Tree; Notes: Large tree > 20 m high, with dark green leaves, pale and hairy below. Leathery. Bark dark and fissured.

6 m high; Tree; Notes: Tree, 6 m tall, riverine. Stems: smooth, grey. New growth velvety. Leaves: with marked pulvinus, sometimes paripinnate, sometimes imparipinnate. Petiole up to 15 cm long, velvety. Rachis velvety. Petiolules thick. Leaflets smooth, dark green above, yellow green and velvety below with marked venation. Fruit: ovoid, green, velvety, with 6 segments demarcated by grooves.

4 m high; Tree; Notes: Shrubby tree, 4 m high. Smooth grey bark. Leaves on young branches very downy, short spines at base of leaves. Sandy plain, Mopane/Terminalia sericea woodland.

360 cm high; Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 360 cm tall. Spiny. Leaves soft, floppy, velvety. Fruit pendulent, ovoid.

Notes: 1.6 m high. Only 1 fruit.

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.