Terminalia glaucescens (T. velutina)

A small deciduous tree 7-13 m.
BARK: light grey becoming black and deeply fissured. Branchlets light to dark red-brown.
LEAVES: tufted at the end of branches, spirally arranged, long oval 15-24 cm long, densely hairy when young, later hairy on veins and some other hairs, 9-16 pairs lateral veins, base unequalrounded, a stalk to 4 cm.
FLOWERS: on spikes 7-16 cm long, beside leaves, cream-white, stalked 2-3 cm, very hairy and with a strong rotten-meat smell.
FRUIT: dry and 2 winged, narrow oblong 5-8 cm long by 3.5 cm wide, tip usually notched, sometimes with a small peg, finely hairy, on a stalk to 1 cm, pale green ripening brown.

The wood is used for firewood, and making charcoal.
The wood is used for making bee hives.

Terminalia glaucescens is native to Uganda.A small savannah tree extending from West Africa to the Sudan, Zaire, Tanzania and Ethiopia in wooded grassland, frequently dominant. In Uganda, it is widespread and occurs in wooded grass savannah preferring sites with loamy black cotton soil in highrainfall areas. In Kampala, this tree can be found along Yusuf Lule road.

Fast growing; coppicing