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Synonyms: |
Landolphia petersiana (Klotzsch) Dyer |
Common names: | Climbing wild apricot (English) |
Frequency: | |
Status: | Native |
Description: |
Climbing shrub up to 6 m or more, often climbing over other trees. Milky sap present. Branches often spotted with conspicuous lenticels. Leaves elliptic to obovate-elliptic, more or less thickly leathery, veining obscure above. The leaves become very discolorous when dry, blackish-green above, pale green or brown with conspicuous veining below. Flowers in elongated branched panicles; corolla c. 4 cm in diameter, white or creamy, sweetly scented. Fruit spherical, fleshy, 4.5-6 cm, velvety, edible. |
Notes: | |
Derivation of specific name: | petersiana: named after Professor Wilhelm Peters (1815-1863) of Berlin who collected in Mozambique in the early 19th century. |
Habitat: | In mixed woodland and on rocky hillsides. |
Altitude range: (metres) | |
Flowering time: | Sep - Dec |
Worldwide distribution: | Kenya and Tanzania southwards to South Africa; also in Madagascar |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,E,S |
Growth form(s): | Climber, liane, shrub over 2 m. |
Endemic status: | |
Red data list status: | |
Insects associated with this species: | |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Sunday 23 November 2008 |
Literature: |
Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Pages 111 - 112. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 67. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 796. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 5. Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 24. As Ancyclobothrys petersiana Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 269. As Ancylobothrys petersiana Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. & Kupicha, F.K. et al. (1985). Apocynaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 423 - 425. (Includes a picture). 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 18. Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 23. |
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