Dombeya rotundifolia

Dombeya rotundifolia, the dikbas or "South African wild pear" (it is not related to pear trees), is a species of small deciduous tree with dark grey to blackish deeply fissured bark, found in Southern Africa and northwards to central and eastern tropical Africa. Formerly placed in the Sterculiaceae, that artificial group has now been abandoned by most authors and the plants are part of an enlarged Malvaceae. The species was first described as Xeropetalum rotundifolium by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter in 1844. In 1851 Jules Émile Planchon placed the species in genus Dombeya as D. rotundifolia.