Hura crepitans L.

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Photo: Toral Shah
On a farm, Makuyu, Kenya

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Common names:	Dynamite tree (English) Monkey no-climb (English) Possumwood (English) Sandbox tree (English)
Description:	Large tree, up to 40 m tall. Trunk and branches spiny. Leaves large, ovate; base cordate; apex long-acuminate; petiole long with 2 glands at apex. Stipules large, caducous. Male inflorescence ovoid-conical, 4-5 cm long, dark red, borne on a long (4-10 cm) peduncle, often with a female flower at the base. Female flowers borne on a pedicel, expanding up to 6 cm after anthesis; calyx tube enclosing the ovary; style column 2-5 cm; stigmatic disk flower-like, dark purple, with 11-14 obtuse lobes, spreading radially. Fruit oblate, becoming reddish brown, concave at apex and base, longitudinally grooved, borne on a pendent pedicel.
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Literature:	Biegel, H.M. (1977). Check-list of ornamental plants used in Rhodesian parks and gardens. Rhodesia Agricultural Journal. Research Report No. 3. Page 62.

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