Photo courtesy of Geoff Nichols
Peanut butter cassia, Senna didymobotrya
This is an evergreen, rounded shrub or small tree reaching up to 3m high that is native to Tropical Africa. Leaves are dark green with 8-21 pairs of leaflets in opposite pairs, 2-5cm long. The leaves are poisonous. Bright yellow flowers in upright racemes have open flowers on the lower part with unopened buds at the tip covered in brownish green or black bracts. Green seed pods are downy, soft and flattened and turn dark brown and contain bean like seeds.
Peanut butter cassiais capable of forming dense impenetrable thickets that impede the growth and regeneration of indegenous plants and affects the movement of wildlife. It invades grasslands, woodlands, forests and riparian zones (banks of watercourses)
Flowering period: All Year
To eradicate this plant: Cut off at the base and apply a suitable herbicide to the freshly cut stump.
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