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