Combretum zeyheri Sond.

zeyheri: named after Carl Zeyher, 1799 - 1858, a German naturalist

Small to medium-sized tree. Leaves clustered near the ends of branches, elliptic to obovate, usually 7-10 cm, sometimes larger, yellowish green, velvety when young, losing most hairs at maturity, 7-10 pairs of lateral veins, hairtuft domatia in the axils on the undersurface; margin entire, often wavy. Flowers greenish to pale yellow with orange anthers, in axillary spikes, appearing before the new leaves, sweetly scented. Fruit large up to 8 × 8 cm, 4-winged, pale green, drying to light brown.

Common

Tropical Africa to Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Swaziland and KwaZulu-Natal S Africa