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petercaire

Date

May 3, 2023 05:03 PM EAT
Aningeria adolfi-friederici - Photo (c) TanzaniaPlantCollaboration, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
gerald194's ID: Aningeria adolfi-friederici, a member of Sapodilla Family (Family Sapotaceae)
Added on January 17, 2024
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ajmt

Date

February 1, 2023 10:04 AM EAT

Description

Pouteria adolfi-friederici

Aningeria adolfi-friederici - Photo (c) TanzaniaPlantCollaboration, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
gerald194's ID: Aningeria adolfi-friederici, a member of Sapodilla Family (Family Sapotaceae)
Added on January 17, 2024
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carrieseltzer

Date

October 6, 2010 12:51 PM EAT

Description

Seedling. You can see the seed coat below the cotyledons.

Aningeria adolfi-friederici - Photo (c) TanzaniaPlantCollaboration, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
gerald194's ID: Aningeria adolfi-friederici, a member of Sapodilla Family (Family Sapotaceae)
Added on January 17, 2024
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carrieseltzer

Date

October 6, 2010 01:28 PM EAT

Description

Fruit and seed handled by a bat.

Aningeria adolfi-friederici - Photo (c) TanzaniaPlantCollaboration, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
gerald194's ID: Aningeria adolfi-friederici, a member of Sapodilla Family (Family Sapotaceae)
Added on January 17, 2024
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carrieseltzer

Date

June 13, 2008 01:46 PM EAT

Description

Seed and green fruit (partially eaten).

Aningeria adolfi-friederici - Photo (c) TanzaniaPlantCollaboration, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
gerald194's ID: Aningeria adolfi-friederici, a member of Sapodilla Family (Family Sapotaceae)
Added on January 17, 2024
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christiangilli

Date

February 9, 2011 02:02 PM EAT
Astropanax volkensii - Photo (c) Tammo Reichgelt, all rights reserved
gerald194's ID: Astropanax volkensii, a member of Ivy Family (Family Araliaceae)
Added on December 31, 2023
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christiangilli

Date

February 8, 2011 03:22 PM EAT

Description

with Astropanax volkensii in the foreground

Jasminum abyssinicum - Photo (c) Troos van der Merwe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Troos van der Merwe
gerald194's ID: Jasminum abyssinicum, a member of Jasmine (Genus Jasminum)
Added on December 31, 2023
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christiangilli

Date

February 8, 2011 03:22 PM EAT
Astropanax volkensii - Photo (c) Tammo Reichgelt, all rights reserved
gerald194's ID: Astropanax volkensii, a member of Ivy Family (Family Araliaceae)
Added on December 27, 2023
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What

Giant Diospyros (Diospyros abyssinica)

Observer

ben__simms

Date

September 18, 2023 08:12 AM EAT
Giant Diospyros - Photo (c) Marco Schmidt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Marco Schmidt
gerald194's ID: Giant Diospyros (Diospyros abyssinica)
Added on November 3, 2023
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troos

Date

March 10, 2023 11:12 AM SAST

Description

Forest vine

Jasminum abyssinicum - Photo (c) Troos van der Merwe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Troos van der Merwe
gerald194's ID: Jasminum abyssinicum, a member of Jasmine (Genus Jasminum)
Added on November 3, 2023
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troos

Date

March 10, 2023 10:48 AM SAST
Jasminum abyssinicum - Photo (c) Troos van der Merwe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Troos van der Merwe
gerald194's ID: Jasminum abyssinicum, a member of Jasmine (Genus Jasminum)
Added on November 3, 2023
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subbi

Date

May 18, 2023 05:10 PM EAT
Dovyalis macrocalyx - Photo (c) Warren McCleland, all rights reserved, uploaded by Warren McCleland
gerald194's ID: Dovyalis macrocalyx, a member of Willow Family (Family Salicaceae)
Added on November 1, 2023
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mjplagens

Date

January 2, 2018 12:46 PM EAT

Description

Trifoliate leaves with dark green, lanceolate leaflets. Small yellowish flowers in open panicles. Small tree.
In the second photo Myrmicaria ants are tending aphids on the inflorescence.

Vepris nobilis - Photo (c) TanzaniaPlantCollaboration, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
gerald194's ID: Vepris nobilis, a member of Citrus Family (Family Rutaceae)
Added on October 31, 2023
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graeme

Date

March 11, 2014
Allophylus rubifolius alnifolius - Photo (c) Graeme White, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Graeme White
gerald194's ID: Allophylus rubifolius var. alnifolius, a member of Lowveld False-Crowberry (Allophylus rubifolius)
Added on August 19, 2023
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What

Giant Yellow Mulberry (Myrianthus arboreus)

Observer

caroline1511

Date

March 3, 2022 09:56 AM EAT

Description

Giant yellow mulberry.Underatorey tree with a short trunk, with branches from near base. Crown spreading, 10m. Still roots often present. Bark thin, smooth,brown. Slash usually white with brown brown lines but occasionally red, turning darker. Leaves digital, red when young with 5-7 leaflets. Leaflets 25×9 cm but sometimes larger , coarsely toothed. Fruit hard, spherical, 3-8 cm diameter, with moderate number of closely- packed seeds.

Giant Yellow Mulberry - Photo (c) Oliver Haumann, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Oliver Haumann
gerald194's ID: Giant Yellow Mulberry (Myrianthus arboreus)
Added on August 14, 2023
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What

East African Cordia (Cordia africana)

Observer

caroline1511

Date

July 6, 2023 02:28 PM EAT

Place

Mawokota (Google, OSM)

Description

A deciduous tree up to 30 m in height, with a spreading umbrella-based or rounded crown. The trunk is curved or crooked, dark light brown and vertically vissured. The slash is soft, white to yellow- brown, sometimes with darker lines, darkening rapidly to dark grey-black on exposure to the air. The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate to suborbocular, 6 to 20 cm long and 6 to 13 cm wide ( exceptionally up to 36 cm long and 18 cm wide). The leaf has an acute apex, acuneate to cordate and often assymmetrical base and an entire or shallowly crenate margin. The petiole is channelled and slender, 3 to 10 cm long, without stipules. The lamina is coriaceous, green and rough above , brownish-green with short hairs beneath bearing 3 to 5 veins from the base, palmately arranged and with 5 to 6 upper pairs of lateral veins conspicuous on both sides. The inflorescence is a terminal panicle of scorpiod cymes, 10 to 15 long, bearing hermaphrodite flowers, very conspicuous on top of trees, Sweet scented, on pedicels up to 1 cm long. Calyxes are brown and hairy, 1 cm long, tubular, with 10 to 12 well marked ridges. The corolla is white, 2cm long, funnel shaped with an undulate margin. The fruit is an ovoid drupe, yellowish brown, 1.5 cm long, in which a singe stone containing 4 to 6 seeds is embedded.

East African Cordia - Photo (c) John Ratzlaff, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by John Ratzlaff
gerald194's ID: East African Cordia (Cordia africana)
Added on August 14, 2023
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caroline1511

Date

July 24, 2023 10:08 AM EAT

Place

Mawokota (Google, OSM)

Description

A deciduous tree up to 35 m in height, usually with a straight trunk armed with conical woody prickle-bearing protuberances up to 3 cm in length and a spreading crown. The bark is grey-brown, fairly smooth, with small, vertical fissures. The slash is yellow- brown and off-white, yellow near the wood fragrant, sometimes turning darker on exposure to the air. The young branches are glabrous and armed with reddish-brown, straighter or slightly curved pickles, which are 2 to 8 mm long. The leaves are in terminal clusters, alternate, imparipinnate, 25 to 100 cm long, with 7 to 27 leaflets. The rachis sometimes carries a few pickles. The petiole is 5 to 10 cm long, flattened above and swollen at the base. The leaflets are alternate to subopposite, elliptic- oblong to elliptic, 13 to 20 cm long and 3 to 6 cm wide, with an accuminate obtuse apex, an unequal base and an entire margin. The lamina is coriaceous, glabrous, with numerous but small and almost inconspicuous gland dots. The midrib is prominent beneath , sometimes bearing sparse prickles, with 8 to 14 pairs of lateral nerves. The lamina is fragrant when crashed and carried on a petiolule to 1.5 cm long. The inflorescence is a terminal or axillary panicle, 20 to 34 cm long, bearing many small, white, bisexual Flowers, which are clustered, sessile or shortly pedicellate. The male flowers have 5 stamens, while the female flowers have 5 stamen-like structures. The fruit is reddish, splitting open to release one black to purple shiny seed. The seed is 3.5 to 6 mm in diameter and tastes of peppermint.

Zanthoxylum gilletii - Photo (c) GMarques, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by GMarques
gerald194's ID: Zanthoxylum gilletii, a member of Prickly-Ashes (Genus Zanthoxylum)
Added on August 14, 2023
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andreaudzungwa

Date

January 2023
Brachycorythis tanganyikensis - Photo (c) andreaudzungwa, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
gerald194's ID: Brachycorythis tanganyikensis, a member of Helmet Orchids (Genus Brachycorythis)
Added on August 8, 2023
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bryanadkins

Date

March 26, 2022 10:58 AM +03
Strombosia scheffleri - Photo (c) bryanadkins, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
gerald194's ID: Strombosia scheffleri, a member of Olax Family (Family Olacaceae)
Added on July 17, 2023
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Date

June 2021
Afrocarpus usambarensis - Photo (c) Kaniaru Naturalist🇰🇪, all rights reserved, uploaded by Kaniaru Naturalist🇰🇪
gerald194's ID: Afrocarpus usambarensis, a member of African Yellowwoods (Genus Afrocarpus)
Added on June 15, 2023
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Date

June 2021
Afrocarpus usambarensis - Photo (c) Kaniaru Naturalist🇰🇪, all rights reserved, uploaded by Kaniaru Naturalist🇰🇪
gerald194's ID: Afrocarpus usambarensis, a member of African Yellowwoods (Genus Afrocarpus)
Added on June 15, 2023
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What

Powder Orchid (Polystachya cultriformis)

Observer

robert1827

Date

March 31, 2022

Description

Polystachya??

Powder Orchid - Photo (c) dennis-mada, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by dennis-mada
gerald194's ID: Powder Orchid (Polystachya cultriformis)
Added on June 8, 2023
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bryanadkins

Date

September 8, 2015 09:10 AM MDT

Description

Occurs along riverine sections of Ragati river and other rivers coming off Mt. Kenya. Seemingly found close to rivers, not on higher ground between water courses.

Astropanax volkensii - Photo (c) Tammo Reichgelt, all rights reserved
gerald194's ID: Astropanax volkensii, a member of Ivy Family (Family Araliaceae)
Added on June 4, 2023
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tammor

Date

November 24, 2018 04:46 AM EST
Astropanax volkensii - Photo (c) Tammo Reichgelt, all rights reserved
gerald194's ID: Astropanax volkensii, a member of Ivy Family (Family Araliaceae)
Added on June 2, 2023
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African Juniper (Juniperus procera)

Observer

lemoncul

Date

January 18, 2023 04:16 PM EAT
African Juniper - Photo (c) Miguel A. Casado, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Miguel A. Casado
gerald194's ID: African Juniper (Juniperus procera)
Added on June 2, 2023
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Purple Vlei Harlequin (Eulophia horsfallii)

Observer

muhammad_a

Date

April 2023
Purple Vlei Harlequin - Photo (c) Ricky Taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ricky Taylor
gerald194's ID: Purple Vlei Harlequin (Eulophia horsfallii)
Added on June 2, 2023
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Giant Diospyros (Diospyros abyssinica)

Observer

marcoschmidtffm

Date

September 24, 2015 04:01 PM CEST
Giant Diospyros - Photo (c) Marco Schmidt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by Marco Schmidt
gerald194's ID: Giant Diospyros (Diospyros abyssinica)
Added on June 2, 2023
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petercaire

Date

May 3, 2023 05:03 PM EAT
Pouteria adolfi-friedericii - Photo (c) TanzaniaPlantCollaboration, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
gerald194's ID: Pouteria adolfi-friedericii [inactive], a member of Sapodilla Family (Family Sapotaceae)
Added on May 30, 2023
Maverick
(Inactive Taxon)

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What

Red Stinkwood (Prunus africana)

Observer

petercaire

Date

May 2023

Place

Kenya (Google, OSM)
Red Stinkwood - Photo (c) Troos van der Merwe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Troos van der Merwe
gerald194's ID: Red Stinkwood (Prunus africana)
Added on May 30, 2023
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vaughanjessnitz

Date

March 10, 2023 05:30 PM SAST

Description

Nesting in Baobab tree

Meliponula ferruginea - Photo (c) Subramanian Sevgan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Subramanian Sevgan
gerald194's ID: Meliponula ferruginea, a member of Robust Stingless Bees (Genus Meliponula)
Added on May 8, 2023
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