Lowveld Cluster Leaf

Sterkbos – Terminalia prunioides

Favours calcareous brackish soils and dry stony areas
Only flowers after good rains, heavily scented flowers (smells like old wet socks)
Called sterkbos because the timber is extremely tough and durable, it is used as tool handles, fence posts and wagon axles
It is good firewood and charcoal.

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