Maclura africana (Bureau) Corner

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Nr Umvumvumvu R Br. by Mutare to Birchenough Br. rd

Photo: Petra Ballings
Chitengo Camp, Gorongosa NAtional Park.

Photo: Bart Wursten
Forested slope of Nhagutua Gorge, Gorongosa National Park, Cheringoma

Photo: Bart Wursten
Chitengo Camp, workshop area, Gorongosa National Park

Photo: Sune Holt
Vilankulo, Inhambane, Mozambique

Photo: Bart Wursten
Streambank at base of Mt Bunga, northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

Foot of Chongwe Falls
Aug 2018
Photo: Mike Hackston

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road West from Khodzue Gorge

Photo: Mark Hyde
North of Turgwe River, Humani Ranch

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Synonyms:	Cardiogyne africana Bureau Milicia spinosa Sim
Common names:	African osage-orange (English) N'dhowa (Sena) Thorny mulberry (English)
Frequency:
Status:	Native
Description:	A widely scrambling spiny shrub. Leaves spirally arranged, often on short, spine-tipped, lateral branchlets, elliptic, dark green, hairless. Flowers in small, dense axillary heads, white, unisexual, sexes on different plants. Fruit a small head of nutlets, each enveloped in the persistent perianth, grey to orange.
Type location:
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	africana: African
Habitat:	In hot and dry riverine vegetation and along the edges of pans; also coastal scrub and on coral rocks
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:	Mar - May
Worldwide distribution:	From southeastern Kenya to South Africa and Madagascar
National distribution:	N,Z,T,MS,GI,M
Growth form(s):	Tree, shrub over 2 m.
Endemic status:
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Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Images last updated:	Tuesday 4 November 2014
Literature:	Berg, C.C. (1991). Moraceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(6) Pages 18 - 21. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (2003). Figs of Southern and South-Central Africa Umdaus Press, South Africa Pages 319 - 322. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 73. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 38. Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 131. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 234. As Cardiogyne africana Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 63. Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 27. As Cardiogyne africana

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