Vaalbos – Terminalia sericea
- Roots used to cure diarrhea, relieve colic and as an eyewash
- Outer layer of roots – hot diffusion used to cure pneumonia
- The silky silvery leaf hairs are used by Tswana potters, as a glaze
- Put a stick into the floor of a shrine in homage to ancestral spirits for good crops
- Cutting down an entire tree is believed to bring hailstorms
- Galls (thickening in branches) are caused by the larvae of the gall midge Tetrasphondylia terminalia
