Flora Fridays: Tree Wisteria | Bolusanthus speciosus

In this Flora Friday video, instructor Mike Anderson teaches us about Wisteria Tree, scientific name Bolusanthus speciosus. Bolusanthus honours Harry Bolus (1834 to 1911), who was a South African botanist and founder of the Cape Town Bolus Herbarium; speciosus means beautiful or showy in Latin.

This beautiful tree is widely spread throughout the wooded grasslands in southern Africa, from Angola and Zambia down to KwaZulu-Natal.

"The tree wisteria is certainly one of the most spectacular of our indigenous trees when in flower, mimicking the splendour of the jacaranda, which unfortunately is proving to be an invader species in parts of South Africa. Given time and effort this tree could replace the jacaranda trees from Argentina and carpet Pretoria streets with indigenous purple blooms instead." - PlantZAfrica