Golden Bean Tree

obtusifolia: with obtuse leaves

Shrub or small slender tree to 15 m. Leaves with 3-5 pairs of oblong-elliptic leaflets and a terminal leaflet, densely covered in golden hairs when young, woolly below. Flowers in branched, terminal panicles, showy, golden yellow with reddish stripes on the lower corolla lobes. Fruit a long slender capsule, somewhat flattened, densely covered in golden hairs.

Local

From Angola and Namibia eastwards and from the DRC and Kenya southwards to South Africa, including Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.