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Common names: | Green apple (English) |
Frequency: | |
Status: | Native |
Description: |
Shrub or small tree. Leaves elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, shiny and and thinly textured. Flowers reddish-brown to wine-red, rather striking. Fruit near spherical, not segmented, blackish and deeply wrinkled with vertical ridges when ripe. |
Notes: | This variety differs from var. junodii by the leathery leaves with prominent veining and lime-green to yellowish hairless flowers on longer stalks with reddish inner petals. |
Derivation of specific name: | junodii: named after Henri-Alexandra Junod (1863-1934), Swiss evangelist and naturalist in South Africa; macrantha: large-flowered |
Habitat: | On rocky outcrops and in woodland, usually in hot and dry areas. |
Altitude range: | |
Flowering time: | Sep - Dec |
Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique and Mpumalanga South Africa. |
Mozambique distribution: | MS |
Growth form(s): | |
Endemic status: | |
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Insects associated with this species: | |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Saturday 16 December 2017 |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 128. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Pages 211 - 212. |
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