Sterculia setigera

Deciduous savannah tree. Bark grey-purple, flaking in oblong scales which leave pale-grey or greenish-yellow patches on falling. Leaves suborbicular, digitately nerved and lobed, cordate at the base with broadly overlapping auricles, stellate-pilose above, grey-tomentose beneath. Flowers in erect cymes 2-4 in. Calyx green outside, purple-red with green lines inside, downy. Fruits are carpels, grey-green or brown, usually 4 together, sessile, oblong, beaked, velvety inside with numerous stiff, pungent, redbrown bristles along the inner side. Seeds purple-black, with a small fleshy yellow-brown aril at the base, oblong, numerous.