Brush Box
Lophostemon confertus
Photographed on the grounds of the Kitale Club, Kitale, Kenya. April 2011. Notice that the leaves and flowering structures are free of insect feeding activity.
Large, elyptical leaves on a medium to large tree. Rather large white flowers with five petals have the numerous stamens fused into five columns opposite the petals. Hard, cup-shaped fruits have three fuzed, woody carpels and are densely spaced on very short pedicels. This non-native tree is originally Australia.
