The Big Bad List of Trees
The Trees
*Makes a good bonsai subject for all experience levels **Requires advanced bonsai knowledge and techniques
| Trees | Scientific name | Common name | Seed availability |
 | Acacia burkei* | Black monkey-thorn | Request |
 | Acacia exuvialis* | Flaky-bark thorn | Available |
 | Acacia gerrardii* | Red thorn | Request |
 | Acacia grandicornuta* | Horned thorn | Dropped from study |
 | Acacia nigrescens* | Knobthorn | Short wait |
 | Acacia nilotica* | Scented-pod thorn | Dropped from study |
 | Acacia xanthophloea* | Fevertree | Short wait |
 | Acacia tortilis* | Umbrellathorn | Available |
 | Adansonia digitata** | Baobab | Available |
 | Albizia harveyi* | Bushveld albizia | Short wait |
 | Colophospermum mopane** | Mopane | Short wait |
 | Combretum apiculatum | Red bushwillow | Short wait |
 | Combretum collinum | Weeping bushwillow | Short wait |
 | Combretum hereroense | Russest bushwillow | Short wait |
 | Combretum imberbe* | Leadwood | Available |
 | Combretum zeyheri | Large-fruit bushwillow | Short wait |
 | Croton megalobotrys | Feverberry | Short wait |
 | Dichrostachys cinerea* | Sicklebush | Short wait |
 | Diospyros mespiliformis* | Jackalbery; African ebony | Available |
 | Euclea divinorum | Magic guarri | Available |
 | Euclea natalensis | Natal guarri; Hairy guarri | Available |
 | Grewia bicolor | White-leaved raisin | Available |
 | Grewia monticola | Grey raisin | Request |
 | Gymnosporia senegalensis | Red spikethorn | Request |
 | Kigelia africana* | Sausage tree | Short wait |
 | Kirkia acuminata | White kirkia | Available |
 | Peltophorum africanum* | African wattle | Available |
 | Pterocarpus angolensis* | Wild teak; Bloodwood tree | Long wait |
 | Pterocarpus rotundifolius* | Round-leaved teak | Short wait |
 | Philenoptera violacea* | Appleleaf; Raintree | Available |
 | Schotia brachypetala* | Weeping Boer-bean | Short wait |
 | Sclerocarya birrea* | Marula | Available |
 | Spirostachys africana* | Tamboti | Short wait |
 | Terminalia prunioides | Purple-pod cluster leaf | Available |
 | Terminalia sericea | Silver-cluster leaf | Available |
 | Ziziphus mucronata* | Buffalo thorn | Available |
Keala's personal favorites: Fevertree, Buffalo thorn, Tamboti, White kirkia
Maria's personal favorites: Baobab, African wattle Desmond's personal favorites: Marula
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