Flame Thorn

Senegalia ataxacantha

Inclusion rationale

Why did we include this species on our website? Because it was mentioned in the following source(s):

• Treelist Melville Koppies

Features data

The following sources have provided data on features for this species.

Source document	Features
PlantZAfrica Jan. 1, 2026, 8:35 a.m.	Bees Butterflies Drought-resistant Easy to grow Hedge Attractive Useful Sun Shrub Tree Pioneer species Soil: clay Soil: loam Soil: sandy Color data Flowering data
Treelist Melville Koppies May 22, 2026, 3:53 p.m.	Tree Gauteng

Photo credits

You can see the credits underneath each photo of the species pages as well. Credits, in order of appearance:

• (c) Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Tony Rebelo source
• (c) tjeerd, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by tjeerd source
• (c) Hildegard Klein, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Hildegard Klein source
• (c) Shaun Swanepoel, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Shaun Swanepoel source
• (c) tjeerd, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by tjeerd source
• (c) Robert Taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Robert Taylor source
• (c) Reuben Heydenrych, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Reuben Heydenrych source
• (c) riana60, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by riana60 source
• (c) riana60, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by riana60 source
• (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) source
• (c) Andrew Gillespie, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Andrew Gillespie source