Our Tree Library

Every tree tells a story, of the soil it restores, the people it feeds, and the forest it becomes.

Every tree we plant is chosen deliberately, for its role in the landscape, its value to the people who live alongside it, and its place in the ecosystem it's helping to rebuild. This library is a growing record of the species behind our work, planted across our Reforestation, Agroforestry, Village Greening, and Urban Greening projects, with more added as our work continues to grow.

Cape Beech

Rapanea melanophloeos

Reforestation

Keeps to itself, and feeds half the forest through winter.
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Cape Chestnut

Calodendrum capense

Reforestation

The forest's flashiest bloomer — a whole tree wrapped in candy pink, just for summer.
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Cape Holly

Ilex mitis

Reforestation

You may have seen this one around the holidays
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Cross-berry

Grewia occidentalis

Reforestation

This tree that survives beginners.
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East African Mahogany

Khaya anthotheca

Reforestation

A visitor that's too big for a garden.
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Flat-crown

Albizia adianthifolia

Reforestation, Village Greening

The flat green line on every African horizon.
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Forest Num-num

Carissa bispinosa

Reforestation, Urban Greening

Small, spiky, and secretly delicious … the garden's best-kept snacking secret.
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Keurboom

Virgilia oroboides

Reforestation

Grows too fast to last, and that is exactly the point.
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Outeniqua Yellowwood

Afrocarpus falcatus

Reforestation

The slow-rising giant … with very unusual dinner guests
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Pod Mahogany

Afzelia quanzensis

Reforestation, Village Greening

Slow to grow, and wanted by everyone for everything.
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Red Alder

Cunonia capensis

Reforestation

Two spoons clasped over every new leaf.
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Taaibos

Searsia pyroides

Reforestation

The reason your garden has birds.
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White Milkwood

Sideroxylon inerme

Reforestation

The tree that built the coastal forest, one slow metre at a time.
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White Pear

Apodytes dimidiata

Reforestation

This tree produces fruits like black beads, each one sitting in a scarlet cup.
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White Stinkwood

Celtis africana

Reforestation

Only smells bad once you cut it.
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Wild Gardenia

Rothmannia Capensis

Reforestation

The forest gardenia the monkeys can't resist
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Wild Olive

Olea europaea subsp. africana

Reforestation

Africa's own olive, and one of the hardest trees in the country to kill.
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Wild Peach

Kiggelaria africana

Reforestation

Gets eaten alive every summer but still comes back thicker.
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Wild Pomegranate

Burchellia bubalina

Reforestation

Orange flowers built for a sunbird's beak.
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