Records made by Mark Hyde

In fruit

Climber with striking fruits

In fruit

Fruits seen

Another location for this species at Val D'Or

Climber, covered in fruits and seeds

Unusually high altitude but not apparently planted

iNaturalist record

Flowers orange-yellow, c. 1 cm wide; leaves simple or 3-lobed

This site 'by the Old Bulawayo Road' was well known in the late 80s and 90s and was at that time the only record of this species from Zimbabwe. 4 plants were seen on this visit, varying from very large to a shrub only. The trees were in fruit. The area is becoming more and more built-up and disturbed.

Medium tree, fallen down, flowering with cream spikes; leaves with many pinnae; prickles paired at nodes.

Leaves long; spikes erect; pods curved

In flower

Scattered thorns

Small trees in fruit, planted with schweinfurthii poss as a barrier.

Number on label 8556.

Small tree; in flower

Flowering getting under way

Small naturalised tree

Many large majestic specimens throughout the camp.

In habitat picture

Trunk pale and flaking; petioles > 1.2 cm.

Pictures taken to show the pale, peeling branchlets,. Sometimes with a greenish underbark.

Leaves as wide as long (fleckii narrower).

Tree just coming into flower.

Planted in October 1985

In full flower

In full flower

NOT planted, per Roger Fairlie

Very tall trees.

Same tree came into flower on 12 September 2020.

Several planted trees on Belfast Road side

Flowering when leafless; buds red.

In flower

Several trees in a roadside planting

Small tree on 'shore' of dam. Looks not planted.

In flower

In flower

Flowers white

In flower and fruit

Paired straight thorns, very prominent cushions, flowers white balls, 6-8 pairs of pinnate; rhachis grooved.

In fruit - frs grey, curved

2-3 pairs of pinnae, gland only between end pair of pinnae

8 trees of various sizes in a colony in the middle of open grassland with few other trees present. The trees were originally found by Ferdi Couto (Maureen Silva-Jones, pers. comm.). Specimens collected on 9 May were shown to Bob Drummond on 17 May 1992 and a careful examination was made, especially to check that were not Acacia polyacantha. Bob agreed that they were A. hereroensis. There already is a specimen from the same place in SRGH dated March 1988, collected by Rolf Hangartner. I understand that subsequently the trees were cut down. Mark Hyde, 3 August 2015.

Tiny leaflets.

In full flower

Planted, per Roger Fairlie

In flower

Same tree in flower on 14 Nov 2020. Also still with many flowers on 19 Jan 2021.

Several fine trees

In fruit

Bark strong green colour

Trunk peeling with green underbark. Pods with nipples (not seen on this occasion)

Photographed by Meg Coates Palgrave