Appelblaar – Lonchocarpus capassa
- Leaves often appear eaten (broken edges)
- Also fed on by the frog-hopper bug (see weeping wattle)
- Leaves heavily browsed on by game, but the roots are poisonous
- Inhaling smoke from burning roots – cures colds
- Burning roots also used to treat snakebites
- 18 m or more tall
- Bark & roots are an effective poison to immobilize or kill fish
- Secretes insecticide compound from roots
- Wood used to manufacture pounding blocks, tool handles, grain mortars and dugout canoes.
