Wild Syringa (Burkea africana) tree, Mabula, Limpopo, South Africa

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Wild Syringa (Burkea africana) tree, Mabula, Limpopo, South Africa - Burkea africana is a deciduous, medium-sized, spreading, flat-topped tree up to 8 m high. Each leaf is 100–350 mm long, with 2–4 pairs of pinnae and 5–18 leaflets per pinna. Leaflets are oval and silvery when they are young and marked with brown spots. Flowers are creamy white, fragrant and in pendulous racemes of up to 300 mm in length. The bark is toxic, rich in alkaloids and tannins and used for tanning leather. Burkea africana is widely distributed in tropical Africa and in sub tropical regions southwards to Namibia, Botswana and the Limpopo, North West, Gauteng and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa. It is a common and characteristic tree of sandy soils in dry deciduous bushveld and woodlands.

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Location: Mabula, Limpopo, South Africa
Photo credit: © EggImages / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: africa, african, africana, autumn, brown, burkea, forest, golden, leaves, south, syringa, tree