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Calodendrum capense CAPE CHESTNUT
Large pink flowers cover the canopy in early summer. Calodendrum capense can reach heights of 60 feet in its native habitat but trees that large are rare outside of its endemic environment. The oils of the Cape chestnut are used in cosmetics and especially for skin care. Endemic to the highlands of east Africa it can be found in central Kenya and Tanzania as well as the lower slope of the Drakensberg mountain range where its range begins to move seaward and continues south along the coast to Port Elizabeth and then on to Cape Town. A Swedish physician and botanist named Carl Thunberg (1743-1828) who worked under famed taxonomist Carl Linnaeus was first to describe Calodendrum capense in 1772. Presidio Park has but just one. |
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