Indigenous Bush Palletability
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Mr Farmer--- Please send me a note or contact me with any suggestions with regard to bush or trees which should be added to this "sugested only" list! -- I will keep it updated as best I can! All I am trying to do is get info to farmers.-- Please, every farmer must do their own further research as i have found a lot of conflicting information on the internet! --- Thanks! To: [email protected] My cel: 0844534499 Please Note: (This is only a suggested guide. All users must please varify correctness before use of any kind!) 1. Ritlee Xecutech, Cedara or Marc Custers will NOT accept any liability or responsability of any kind whatsoever if there are any mistakes, conflicts or incorrect information on this listing! 2. Ritlee received a list with No, Species,Index from a bush specialist stationed at Cedara in Howick 3.This list has never been published and is only a help for those interested in this information. 4. Ritlee (Marc Custers -- Cell 0844534499) Added Common Name, Brief Description, Normal Location and picture to this list to try and assist with those interested. 5.The reason why Ritlee have done this is to help us premote our Ritlee 225 Chipper with grinder which is ideal for chipping bush into a consistacy we feel ideal for cattle and game feed addition. Woody plant palatability Index-- 0 – Not Acceptable, 0.1- Only plant parts eaten and 1 - Acceptable ->> No Species Common Name Brief Description Normal Location Index Pictures African tree – red pods and numerous Gauteng, Kzn, Namibia, Botswana and 1 Acacia Ataxacantha Flame Thorn 1 hooked prickles. Zim 2 Large spreading deciduous tree. Mozambique, Botswana, Zim, Kzn, Acacia Burkei Black Monkey Thorn 1 Flattened open crown. Dark hooked thorns, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga flowers white, pink and cream. 3 Cork Thorn Deciduous hardy drought resistant. Semi Acacia Davyi hardy, flowers yellow balls. Thorn tree Indigenous to SA 1 1.5 – 3m Kurkdoring Small tree or shrub, V shaped canopy. 4 Acacia Grandicornuta Horned Thorn Huge white spiny thorns, has pods with All over Africa 1 white flower balls SA, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Branches near base, multistemmed, hooked 5 Acacia Luederitzii Umbrella Thorn 1 and long straight thorns, rough bark. Mozambique Black Thorn Low branched spherical tree, small, short, 6 Acacia Melifera sharp hooked spines in pairs. Flowers Northern Cape and Bushveld 1 cream. Swarthaak Rough bark, yellow flowers, paired thorns, 7 Acacia Natalitia Sweet Thorn Southern Africa 1 pods Deciduous tree, thorns and characteristic 8 Acacia Nigrescens Knob Thorn Southern Africa and Tanzania 1 knob on the bark. Egyptian Thorn, Prickly acacia, Umbrella shaped dark bark with grooves, 9 Acacia Nilotica Southern Africa, Kzn, Mozambique 1 Red Thorn flower white/yellowish. Indigenousbush and trees Confidential Page 1 Branches reach up into the sky, pale Bushveld, N and S Cape, Highveld, 10 Acacia Robusta Splendid Thorn paired thorns, canopy with spikey outline, 1 Drakensburg, Kzn and Lowveld. dark brown pods. Flat topped low spreading, hooked prickles SA, Kzn, Zim, Swaziland, Angola, 11 Acacia Senegal var. rostraga Bushy Three Thorn 1 in threes, white flowers. Botswana Umbrella Thorn Tolerates extremely harsh environments. 12 Acacia Tortillis Small white flowers. Produces pods, spring Africa, South Africa and bushveld 1 like. Haak en steek South Africa, Zim, Smooth bark with a green yellow colour. 13 Acacia Xanthophloea Fever Tree 1 Straight white spines that grow in pairs. Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique Large deciduous tree with a flat crown, Eastern South Africa to tropical 14 Albizia Adianthifolia Flat Crown 1 bright green heavily scented leaves Africa Worm – cure Deciduous, multi stemmed tree. Blanchett’s spine tipped. Leaves 2-4 pairs of pinnae, Tropical Africa to Namibia and 15 Albizia Anthelmitica 1 flowers fluffy semi spherical heads, Swaziland. creamy white and pods. Used in traditional medicine to cure tape worm Broad pod 16 Albizia Forbesii Black to grey bark with pods. Bushveld and Kzn 1 Breedpeul-Valsdoring Multiple branches from near base, dark Meerstam – Valsdoring, Multi – 17 Albizia Petersiana grey and smooth, compound flowers Kzn, Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga 1 Stemmed False Thorn rounded head. White and red Shrub or small tree leaves, trifoliate, Tropical Africa, Eastern Cape and 18 Allophylus Africanus African False Currant often branched spike like. Flower small 0.1 South Africa creamy yellow. Robust head, stiff grey-green leaves Klipriverhills, Jhb, Soutpansberg, 19 Aloe Marlothii Mountain Aloe covered in spines and various colours for 0.1 Zim, Malawi, Swaziland, Mozambique flowers Subtropical Africa, 20 Annona Seregalensis African Custard Apple Deciduous, medium sized 1 Kzn, Limpopo, Mpumalanga Tasselberry Evergreen neat shade tree, simple leaves Tropical Africa mostly coastal areas 21 Antidesma Venosum with fine hairs. Yellow green flowers – red 1 but able to adapt to Highveld when mature. Voelsitboom Indigenousbush and trees Confidential Page 2 Evergreen bushy tree, masses of white Southern Africa, Cape Town, 22 Apodytes Dimedea Wild Pear 1 blossoms Gauteng and Kenya Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Kzn, Needle bush Mpumalanga. Spiny shrub, hairy, bark green on younger 23 Azima Tetracantha Speldedoring branches whorls of four long straight Browsed by cattle 0.1 spines Beestingbush Torchwood Protected, semi deciduous tree. Straight Eastern tropical Africa, Kzn, some 24 Balanites Maughamii 1 smooth trunk with spirally arranged leaves. bushveld, Kenya, Swaziland Groendoring Evergreen – Semi deciduous, grows I dense groups with other trees, thin leaves blue Northern part of S.A. Limpopo, 25 Berchemia Zeyheri Red Ivory 1 green texture, hard wood, and drupe Zimbabwe, Eastern Cape. fruit. Delicious to eat. Wooded grassland. Southern Africa, Kzn, Zambia. Deciduous, decorative, wood used for furniture, multi stemmed, bark rough 26 Bolusanthus Speciosus Tree Wisteria brownish grey, deeply fissured leaves, 0.1 brown fruit pods, hang in clusters from branches. Beautiful purple flower. Vanwykshout Tree 222 Shepard’s tree Sturdy white trunk, browsed by antelope, 27 Bosica Albitrunca rough dark bark, flattened underside, Bushveld, Lowveld and Kalahari 0.5 narrow leaves, stiff veins. Witgat Branches are brown with a purple tinge; 28 Brachyaleena Discolour Coast silver oak leaves are oval, oblong and silver South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland 0.5 underside. Variable plant, range from scrambling to Eastern to Southern Africa, Kenya, 29 Bridelia Cathatica Blue Sweetberry erect. Single or many stemmed. Bears Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, 1 fruit. Botswana, Mozambique. Doringtou 30 Canthium Spinosum Tree 707 Eastern Cape, Kzn 0.5 Thorny Rockalder Variable grows thorns in opposite pairs, Cape Town, along eastern coast, 31 Canthuim Inerme Turkey berry right angles to the branch, and leaves also 0.1 Natal, Moz, Zim and Swaziland. opposite pairs. Iqwaningi Climber with long slender branches. Leaves 32 Capparis Brassii Eastern coast belt forest, Kzn 0.1 alternate and spirally arranged. Narrow leaf caper bush Indigenousbush and trees Confidential Page 3 Scrambling shrub, with sharp paired South Africa, Angola, Malawi, 33 Capparis Sepiaria Hedge caper bush hooked thorns. Alternating leaves, dry 1 Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. deciduous woodland and thicket. Mostly robust woody climber, sharp paired Eastern Cape, Kzn, Mpumalanga, 34 Capparis Tomentoza Woolly caper bush hooked spines. Leaves form between Limpopo, Botswana, Namibia, Tropical 1 spines. Africa. Forest num-num Shrub or small tree, fragrant white South Africa, Malawi, Zim, 35 Carissa Bispinosa 1 flowers. Mozambique. Y Thorned carissa 36 Catumaregum Spinosa Mountain pomegranite Spiny deciduous shrub. Southern China 1 Caturnaregam Thorny shrub approx. 1m in height. Woody Tropical Africa, Kzn, Mpumalanga, 37 Coastal bone – Apple 689 spines in opposite pairs, terrestrial, bear 1 Limpopo. fruit and flowers. Obovata False Horsewood Smooth thin grey green bark, brown and 38 Clauesena Anisata Basternieshout mottled when older. Compound leaves and Sub Saharan Africa 0.1 scented flowers. Baster - Perdepis Tinderwood Bark covered in permanent white lenticels, 39 Clerodendron Glabrum Tontelhout Tropical to Southern Africa 1 leaves in whorls of 3, clustered flowers White cats whiskers Small bone apple Multistemmed shrub, main stem short with Southern Africa, Cape, Kzn, 40 Coddia Rudis arching branches. Up, out and down. Dark 1 Mozambique and Zimbabwe grey bark with no spines. Kleinbeenappel Red bush willow Can be single or multi stemmed. Irregular canopy, long slender branches hang low. Tropical and Southern Africa, 41 Combretum Apiculatum 1 Bark grey to dark brown grey. Have fruit Bushveld and flowers. Rooibos wilg Velvet Bushwillow Small medium sized, evergreen, deciduous, approx. 13m high, round crown, grey 42 Combretum Molle South, West and East Africa 1 brown bark when mature, leaves covered in fine hairs when immature. Basterrooibos Large fruited bush willow Bushveld tree, rounded crown, singular Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Gauteng, 43 Combretum Zeyheri multistemmed. Trunks can be twisted, 1 Northwest. smooth whitish colour. Raasblaar Commiphora Copper Stemmed cork wood Deciduous, small to med, branches divide Southern Africa, N.E. Africa, India, 44 into rigid, thin, branchlettes and twigs. 0.5 Arabia Copper bronze paper like flakes. Harvyii Koperstomkanniiedood Indigenousbush and trees Confidential Page 4 Sweet-root Corkwood Deciduous, branches near base, smooth S.A., Northern Kzn, Zim, 45 Commipora Neglectra green bark, spine