Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 16 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Angola | ANG | AFRICA |
| Botswana | BOT | |
| Cape Provinces | CPP | |
| Caprivi Strip | CPV | |
| DR Congo | ZAI | |
| Eswatini | SWZ | |
| Kenya | KEN | |
| KwaZulu-Natal | NAT | |
| Malawi | MLW | |
| Mozambique | MOZ | |
| Namibia | NAM | |
| Northern Provinces | TVL | |
| Somalia | SOM | |
| Tanzania | TAN | |
| Zambia | ZAM | |
| Zimbabwe | ZIM |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 252 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 9.6 °C | 12.2 °C | 17.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 28.1 °C | 31.1 °C | 34.1 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 484 mm | 686 mm | 1,052 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 1 mm | 23 mm | 70 mm |
It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 252 research-grade observations of Afzelia quanzensis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 10 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Afrafzelia attenuata (Klotzsch) Pierre
- Afrafzelia petersiana (Klotzsch) Pierre
- Afrafzelia quanzensis (Welw.) Pierre
- Afzelia attenuata Klotzsch
- Afzelia petersiana Klotzsch
- Intsia attenuata (Klotzsch) Kuntze
- Intsia petersiana (Klotzsch) Kuntze
- Intsia quanzensis (Welw.) Kuntze ex Engl.
- Pahudia attenuata (Klotzsch) Prain
- Pahudia quanzensis (Welw.) Prain
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.