Bushveld Honeysuckle Tree

nilotica: from the valley of the Nile

Deciduous shrub or small tree. Leaves elliptic, entire, up to 10 × 16 cm, densely velvety hairy, particularly on the under surface. Flowers with a distinct staminal tube, greenish-white, turning yellow with age, appearing before the leaves in dense clusters on the young branches. Fruit a near-spherical, thinly woody capsule. See T. zambesica, which is confined to the Zambesi Valley. It can be distinguished by the smaller leaves being nearly glabrous.

Common

Pseudaphelia apollinaris (Apollo moth)

From Sudan and E Africa southwards to northern S Africa