Trees And Plants

Question 1

Knob-Thorn

Answer 1

Acacia nigrescens
Deciduous tree
Riverbanks with fertile alluvial soil
18 m
NITROGEN FIXING ROOTS
leaves bi-pinnately
white flowers born in spikes from Aug-Nov
Hard curved thorns cover young plants or new branches on old trees
Dark brown bark
Shallow tap roots, sometimes uprooted by storms or elephants
Favourite tree of giraffes
GIRAFFES ARE POLLINATORS
used as fencing post, bark as ropes
Powdered knobs used as pain killer, against eye infection,
Aphrodisiacs

Question 2

Answer 2

MARULA = Sclerocarya birrea

Famili: Anarcardiacea

Medium- tall, deciduous (laubabwerfend)tree with spare leaf cover
Bark on the trunk peels of in large pieces
Deep tap root
Leaves alternated and imparipinnately, grey-green
Small yellow flowers sep- Nov
Fruits juicy and creamy yellow
Seed much sought-after by people and animal
Woodland and grassland
Tannins
Mokoros

Trees are dioecious ( male and female trees)
Only female trees have fruits

Elephant eats leaves , roots and embark the tree to reach the cambium, ring barking
Unausbleiblich ability to repair themselves (like baobabs)

Larval host of the lunar moth