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Scientific name - Drypetes natalensis (Harv.) Hutch Synonyms - Drypetes zombensis Dunkley Popular names - mjafari. Distribution and Habitat - originating in South Africa, which grows in evergreen forests at over 1200 m altitude. Description - small tree, 10 m high, branches edges. Leaves alternate, language narrow oblong or elliptic, round base, asymmetrical, margins deeply soirees, shiny dark green on the upper face, and green inside. Stipele linear, 0.1 cm. Flowers in bundles, appear in the armpit leaves and on old wood, male flowers are nested sepa 4.5, 0 petals, flowers were sepa Cadu female, ovary 1.2 lodges with 2 ovules per box. Blooms in September-October. Fruit drupe indehiscenta, global, 25 x 20 mm, yellow-orange. Growth rate - slowly, 30 cm / 1 year. Build after the age of 5 years. Tolerances - - tolerate moderate drought and frost. Requirements - grows well in semi-shade (natural habitat), in full sun (cultivated in the garden). Management -- Propagation - by seeds. Diseases and pests -- Partners garden - Allophylus natalensis, CELTIS African Clausen anis, megalocarpus Croton, Diospyros inhacaensis, Diospyros natalensis, Euclea divinorum, Fagaropsis angolensis, Mimusops caffra, Ochna natalitia, Tecla gerrardii. Cultivars -- Properties and Uses - bark is used as a remedy for stomach ache and has properties purgatives. Wood is used for firewood, charcoal, wooden spoons. Curiosity -- References Braam Van Wyk, Keith Coates Palgrave, Piet Van Wyk - Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa - Stuik Publishers, 1997 Brian Morris, Jerome Msonthi - Chewa Medical Botany - Lit Verlag, 1995 David Johnson, Sally Johnson - Gardening with Indigenous Trees - Struik Publishers, 2002 Vincent Carruthers - The Wildlife of Southern Africa - Struik Publishers, 2005
See also
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Fraxinus ornus L.
Tree of 10 to 25 m high. The stem is right, well branched crown, smooth gray bark. The wood is brittle, with many knots and wavy fibers. Lujerii are very fine glabrata or pubescent, green-gray Firmiana simplex
Firmiana simplex - also known as Sterculia platanifolia, was named in honor of Karl Joseph von Firmiana (1718-1782). Firmiana simplex - ornamental species grown in parks and gardens in shady and protected from winds exhibitions. Tibouchina urvilleana
Tibouchina urvilleana - shrub, to 4 m high. Belong to the genus Tibouchina about 350 species of shrubs and undergrowth of tropical America, most of them being found across the globe species grown as ornamentals. Acalypha hispida
Acalypha hispida - dioica species, used as an ornamental species because ears red decorations. The Asian species is used as medicine. In Malaya decoction of leaves and flowers is used internally as a laxative and diuretic. Erica canaliculata
Erica canaliculata - shrub originating from South Africa, used as an ornamental species in parks and gardens. Magnoliopsida
Pimenta racemosa (Mill.) JWMoore
Shrub or small tree, 7.5-15 m high; ritidom thin, scaly, producing a scaly trunk. Leaves pungent rum, obovata to elliptic, 3-15 x 1.2-7.5 cm, acute to round at the narrow top, coriacee. Pelargonium Zonal (L.) L' Herit - Muscat
Perennial, stem thick, not very branched, 30-50 cm high. Rotundiforme leaves, 5-7 lobes, tomentoase, ribs obvious upside. Zigomorfe flowers, single or double, meeting in umbele. Calyx with 5 SEPA, green, lanceolata, acute. Corola 4.5-5 cm diameter, 5.7 petals, orbiculare, 2.3-1.8 cm. Blooms in March-septmbrie. Physostegia virginiana
Physostegia virginiana - perennial species, rhizomatic, native to North America, grows on wet pastures. Physostegia virginiana - cultivated as ornamental species in parks and public gardens. Campsis radicans
Genus was created by Portuguese botanist João de Loureiro (1717-1791) in the 1790 Flora Cochinchinensis for Campsis grandiflora. Linne named species with TECOM radicans and Thunberg gave the name of Bignonia radicans. Psidium araucanum is a new species discovered in southern Brazil
Araucanum Psidium (Myrtaceae) is an endemic species in the state of Parana and Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil, along the rivers. Genus Psidium L. is characterized by simple leaves, opposite, with nervatiune Pinata, flower solitary, axillary or Raceme small, large number of stamens arranged in spiral, ovary inferior. |
 
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