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Cussonia natalensis
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Photo: Petra Ballings
By main Harare/Mutare Rd west of Marondera
Photo: Petra Ballings
By main Harare/Mutare Rd west of Marondera
Photo: Bart Wursten
Nr upper dam, Hillside Dams, Bulawayo
Photo: Bart Wursten
Nr upper dam, Hillside Dams, Bulawayo
Photo: Bart Wursten
Harare - Mutare rd between Meacheke and Headlands
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| Common names: | Rock cabbage tree (English) Simple-leaved cabbage tree (English) |
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| Description: |
Small deciduous tree. Bark fissured and corky, dark grey to brown. Leaves deeply 5-lobed but not divided, up to 12 × 20 cm, hairless, shiny green, turning golden yellow in autumn; margin serrate-dentate; petiole up to 30 cm. Flowers small, greenish-yellow, borne in terminal clusters of cylindric spikes up to 15 cm long. Fruit borne along the spikes, spherical, c. 6 mm in diameter, fleshy, purple when ripe. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | natalensis: of Natal, South Africa |
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| Flowering time: | Feb - May |
| Worldwide distribution: | Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal South africa. |
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| Growth form(s): | Tree. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Bamps, P. (1974). Contribution à l'étude des Araliacées africaines Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 44(1/2) Pages 112 - 113. Cannon, J.F.M. (1978). Araliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 629 - 630. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 11. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 265. 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 19. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 30. Steedman, E.C. (1933). Some Trees, Shrubs and Lianes of Southern Rhodesia. Page 58. (Includes a picture). |
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