Zanthoxylum capense

This Zanthoxylum capense photo of a tree growing in Kirstenbosch shows leaves and fruit different from those of the Magaliesbergs kleinperdepram trees.

The fruits and leaves here are bigger, the leaflet veining more conspicuous, the leaf colouring paler. Maybe trees in the southern parts of the distribution (down the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape coasts into the Western Cape) grow a more robust form.

The leaflet margins are flatly scalloped here, the leaflet rachis green-winged. Gland dots on some of the fruits are dark in the photo. The tree may be evergreen, only sometimes being deciduous (Coates Palgrave, 2002).