Trees of the Hilton College Wild Garden

The Wild Garden has many amazing trees. Here is a feature on several of them,
compiled using information and pictures supplied by these form 1 boys.

Sneezewood
Ptaeroxylon obliquum


It is the all time best fence pole wood,
because it is termite and fungus resistant.

Currently, a 45m Sneezewood is the
tallest known indigenous tree in South Africa.

It is called Sneezewood because it
makes you sneeze when you cut it.

 Large uninhabited fingered tree.
Fingered
Massive
Sturdy
Hard
Old
Sneezewood

By Ben Edwards

Outeniqua Yellowwood
Podocarpus falcatus

The Outeniqua Yellowwood can reach up to 45 m in
nature, but cannot reach this in a human garden.

One of the 2 tallest indigenous tree species in South
Africa, and known to live for at least 800 years.

Trunks of these trees were once used for the masts
of ships, and the wood makes excellent furniture.

Yellowwood
Tall   Hard
Old   Flaky  Branched
Humungous with lots of branches

By Taiseer Alwi

Common Coral Tree
Erythrina lysistemon
 

Bark is covered in hook-shaped thorns for protection.

Leaves and bark are eaten by Black Rhino,
Elephant, Kudu and Baboon.

The branches are used as living fence poles.

Coral Tree
Hooked      Weird
Flaky         Stretchy     Old
Stretches out like a hairy monster

By Chinfnembe Nama

White Gardenia
Gardenia thunbergii
 

There are usually many small bugs living on the tree.
They have small ‘hooks’ underneath their mouth to drink the sap.

The white flowers produce a sweet scent
at night, to attract moths.

Roots are widely used to treat skin diseases
and lesions caused by leprosy.

  
Gardenia
Bushlike     Short
Inhabited   Fruity       Fat 


Inhabited by many creatures.


Fruity as an apple tree.


Fat like a rounded man.

By Callum Mansfield