English: Bushveld ozoroa; Common resin tree.
Synonym: Heeria paniculosa.
Genus: 28 species.
Region: southern Africa, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia.
Habitat: open savannah woodlands; rocky, sandy places; elevations from near sea level to 2400 metres.
Use: medicinal; roots for glue; fruits small, kidney-shaped, black, dried as beads in necklaces and protective charms.
BotanySmall tree; evergreen, much-branched; 6 metres to 15 metres in warmer, low-lying areas; vulnerable to fire, insects, borers.
Stem: exude a milky latex when broken; bark granular, dark grey to black.
Leaves: deciduous; silvery-green; alternate or whorled; simple; discolorous; distinctive parallel secondary venation.
Inflorescence: drooping panicles; at ends of new shoots.
Flowers: creamy-white; fragrant; salmon-pink peduncles; speckled with reddish-brown and later turn completely black and wrinkled.
Seeds: parasitised by insects.