Dombeya rotundifolia

Dombeya rotundifolia, Dikbas or South African Wild Pear , is a small deciduous tree with dark grey to blackish deeply fissured bark, found in Southern Africa and northwards to central and eastern tropical Africa. Formerly placed in the Sterculiaceae, that artificial group has now been abandoned by most authors and the plants are part of an enlarged Malvaceae

Dombeya rotundifolia, Dikbas or "South African Wild Pear" (it is not related to pear trees), is a small deciduous tree with dark grey to blackish deeply fissured bark, found in Southern Africa and northwards to central and eastern tropical Africa. Formerly placed in the Sterculiaceae, that artificial group has now been abandoned by most authors and the plants are part of an enlarged Malvaceae Trees are normally 5–6 m tall with a single well-defined trunk, growing on deep soils, river banks and rocky places. More

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