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Acacia xanthophloea (Fever tree)
Koorsboom [Afrikaans]; mooka-kwena [Northern Sotho];
umHlosinga [Zulu]; nkelenga [Tsonga]; munzhelenga [Venda] Life
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> Family: Fabaceae > Genus: Acacia
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Acacia xanthophloea, Musicadzi River, Road
5A, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. [photo Bart Wursten ©,
Flora of
Mozambique] |
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Fever trees (Acacia xanthophloea), in
winter in the Fever tree Forest along the Luvuvhu River near Pafuri in
the northern Kruger National Park, Limpopo, South Africa. [photo
Colin Paterson-Jones ©] |
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Acacia xanthophloea (Fever tree) growing
outside the Iziko SA Museum in Cape Town. [photo
H.G.
Robertson, Iziko ©] |
Acacia xanthophloea, by Mazowe River, Hippo
Pools, Zimbabwe. [photo Bart Wursten ©,
Flora of
Mozambique] |
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Acacia xanthophloea (Fever tree) growing
outside the Iziko SA Museum in Cape Town. [photo
H.G.
Robertson, Iziko ©] |
Indigenous distribution extends from Kenya to the
northern regions of southern Africa. It grows mainly around water bodies and in
low-lying areas with abundant underground water. It is also cultivated as an
ornamental tree beyond its natural distribution. The most distinctive feature of
this tree is the smooth, greeny-coloured bark. It is called the Fever tree
because early travellers found that they experienced fever when in areas with
this tree. The reason for this correlation is that
Anopheles
mosquitoes are vectors of
Plasmodium that causes malaria, and breed in swampy areas where this
tree is abundant.
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