Karoo boer-bean - Schotia brachypetala Seeds

Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae

Common names: Weeping Boer-Bean, Huilboerboon, Tree Fuchsia, African Walnut

Schotia brachypetala is a handsome, medium to large tree with a wide-spreading, densely branched, rounded crown. It has a single trunk that sometimes branches low down.

In warm frost-free areas this tree is evergreen, but in colder regions it is deciduous, losing its leaves for a short period in winter to spring.

The flowers are rich deep red, and are produced in masses, in dense branched heads on the old wood during spring.