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Grewia hexamita
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Photo: Meg Coates Palgrave
Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Photo: Meg Coates Palgrave
Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Photo: Meg Coates Palgrave
Kruger National Park, South Africa.
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| Synonyms: |
Grewia messinica Burtt Davy & Greenway Grewia schweickerdtii Burret |
| Common names: | Giant raisin (English) Large-flowered grewia (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Shrub or small tree. Bark reddish-brown, smooth with conspicuous lenticels; young branches covered in rust-coloured woolly hairs. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic, up to 10 × 6 cm, 3-veined from a distinctly asymmetric base, shiny green, hairless and somewhat rough above, densely yellowish-white woolly below; margin toothed, somewhat rolled under. Flowers showy, golden yellow, 4-5 cm in diameter, solitary or in 2-3-flowered axillary clusters. Fruit often deeply 2-lobed or divided, each part up to 2 cm in diameter, yellowish-brown to reddish when ripe, edible but with little flesh. |
| Notes: | ote: this is an attractive species with large flowers and shiny leaves, popular in horticulture. |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | In dry deciduous woodland, often in river valleys. |
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| Flowering time: | Sep - Dec |
| Worldwide distribution: | Tanzania (?), Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | GI,M |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Friday 30 January 2009 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 575. (Includes a picture). Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 258. 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 81. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 109. Wild, H. (1963). Tiliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Page 55. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Grewia hexamitaAfrican Plant Database: Grewia hexamita
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Grewia hexamita
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Grewia hexamita
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