Cussonia zimmermannii Harms

A tree to 45 m. tall with greenish-grey fissured bark.. Leaves digitately compound; petiole up to 53.5 cm. long and 5 mm. diameter, but generally considerably smaller, glabrous apart from some crisped hairs in stipular region and at junction with leaflets; leaflets 5–7(–9), sessile, chartaceous to coriaceous, lanceolate to oblanceolate, narrowly ovate and narrowly obovate, up to 25 cm. long by 8 cm. wide, but generally considerably less, caudate to acute (very rarely emarginate), with a narrowly cuneate to much attenuated base (occasionally base only a winged petiolule of up to 12 mm. long), with crenate to subentire margins, glabrous above, glabrous to slightly puberulous beneath.. Flowering spikes up to about 12 together, up to 34 cm. long; floral bracts lanceolate to broadly ovate, up to 3.5 mm. long by up to 2 mm. wide, frequently much smaller, puberulous, sometimes glabrescent quite early on; base of spike-rhachis often clothed with larger, thicker overlapping sterile bracts.. Fruits up to 6 mm. long, usually obconical to hemispherical, glabrous or puberulous.. Fig. 3/5, p. 10.

Coastal evergreen forest and bushland, occurring in rainforest as well as drier evergreen forest, also in forest margins, at elevations up to 400 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.