Sterculia appendiculata (Mgude)

Botanical name: Sterculia appendiculata

Common names: Mgude, Yellow barked Sterculia

Family: Malvaceae

Subfamily: Sterculioideae

Origin: East Africa

One of the most characteristic and tallest trees of this vegetation type, it is a protected species and in natural habitat many of these large, yellow-barked trees have been left standing amid cultivation and grazing land, thus indicating how widespread the Sterculia forests used to be.

Similar plants: Sterculia appendiculata (Mgude)

• Brachychiton australis (Broad Leaved Bottletree)
• Firmiana colorata (Colored Sterculia)
• Firmiana simplex (Chinese Parasol Tree)
• Pterygota alata (Buddha Coconut )
• Sterculia apetala (Bellota)
• Sterculia ceramica (Lanyu Sterculia)
• Sterculia coccinea (Shrub Sterculia)
• Sterculia foetida (Peon)
• Sterculia lanceifolia (Lanceleaf Sterculia)
• Sterculia lanceolata (Lanceleaf Sterculia)