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Cordyla africana
Also called Wild Mango, Sunbird Tree
Cordyla africana is a large deciduous African tree in the legume family, grown mainly for shade and fruit rather than as a garden ornamental. The key to growing it is giving it deep, well-drained sandy soil and room to spread, as it is a tall tree in the wild.
Cordyla africana is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae.
It is a deciduous African tree that grows up to 25 m or 82 ft, with a large, spreading, much-branched crown, and a bole of some 2.2 m (7 ft 3 in) dbh. It is sometimes referred to by the common name wild mango. It is found up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) elevation in large river valleys, in miombo woodland and coastal swampy evergreen forest, mostly on sandy soils, along the eastern parts of central and southern Africa. It occurs in South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga provinces, the Kruger National Park, Eswatini, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya and Tanzania. 'Cordyla' is from the Greek word 'kordyle', meaning a 'club' and is a reference to the club-shaped fruit and stalk.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
