Searsia chirindensis stems

Searsia chirindensis, commonly a straggling tree, may grow several stems or add more later as the tree in the photo did. Some of these trees achieve a stem diameter of up to 1,3 m. Coppice shoots occurring on S. chirindensis trees may be spiny.

The bark is usually brown and smooth, here fissuring longitudinally, adding some roughness. The brown stem colour is being replaced by pale grey on the old bark in picture. The youngest, straight branches seen here are also whitish grey (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Pooley, 1993).