Pat I think the first one is what we call in Afrikaans a 'Karee boom' The fancy name of probably one of the most common one's is Rhus Africanus. The only fancy name of a tree I know.  Regards Daniel Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Colin Möhr via <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Date: 27/06/2015 01:59 (GMT-04:00) To: Pat Frykberg <patfryk@clear.net.nz>,south-africa@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Name of two trees common in SWA Hi Pat, If you click on http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantoftheweek/species_a.htm and scroll through, you will probably recognise the second tree, probably a smaller sort of ACACIA. Kind Regards, Colin Mohr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Frykberg via" <south-africa@rootsweb.com> To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com>; <enquiry@puccini-namibia.com> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 3:50 AM Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Name of two trees common in SWA > There are botanists and naturalists out there who I am sure will have > these answers for me ? > > 1. The tree in question is, from my childhood's viewpoint quite tall. It > carried long pods we called boointjies, edible, green at first and sharp > taste, but later dried out a brown colour with the flesh now a dusty beige > and dry. I have had one description ---- is it called prosopis. ? > Camelthorn? I remember these from Okahandja, mainly. > > 2. On a smallish shrubby tree with I think thorns, we would eat the sweet > gum that oozed from a wound in the bark. Sometimes the gum was very thick > honey-like and sweet/woody and blood red,  or dried in yellowish sweet > crisp  lumps. > > These are memories going back to the 1930s. I would Love to have the > answers, please. > Many thanks > Patricia Frykberg. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Dan. I'll explore that. The name is certainly familiar. Pat -------------------------------------------------- From: "danielmalanjacobs via" <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 3:42 AM To: "Colin Möhr" <mohr@lantic.net>; <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Name of two trees common in SWA > Pat I think the first one is what we call in Afrikaans a 'Karee boom' The > fancy name of probably one of the most common one's is Rhus Africanus. The > only fancy name of a tree I know. > > Regards > > Daniel > > > Sent from Samsung Mobile > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Colin Möhr via <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > Date: 27/06/2015 01:59 (GMT-04:00) > To: Pat Frykberg <patfryk@clear.net.nz>,south-africa@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Name of two trees common in SWA > > Hi Pat, > If you click on http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantoftheweek/species_a.htm > and scroll through, you will probably recognise the second tree, probably > a > smaller sort of ACACIA. > Kind Regards, > Colin Mohr > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pat Frykberg via" <south-africa@rootsweb.com> > To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com>; <enquiry@puccini-namibia.com> > Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 3:50 AM > Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Name of two trees common in SWA > > >> There are botanists and naturalists out there who I am sure will have >> these answers for me ? >> >> 1. The tree in question is, from my childhood's viewpoint quite tall. It >> carried long pods we called boointjies, edible, green at first and sharp >> taste, but later dried out a brown colour with the flesh now a dusty >> beige >> and dry. I have had one description ---- is it called prosopis. ? >> Camelthorn? I remember these from Okahandja, mainly. >> >> 2. On a smallish shrubby tree with I think thorns, we would eat the sweet >> gum that oozed from a wound in the bark. Sometimes the gum was very thick >> honey-like and sweet/woody and blood red, or dried in yellowish sweet >> crisp lumps. >> >> These are memories going back to the 1930s. I would Love to have the >> answers, please. >> Many thanks >> Patricia Frykberg. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1434 / Virus Database: 4311/9605 - Release Date: 06/27/15 >