Description
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anglais
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fourni par Flora of Zimbabwe
Medium-sized to large tree. Bark dark grey to black, very rough with long vertical fissures. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic, dark green above, paler below, hairless. Flowers axillary, solitary, cream to pale yellow with greyish hairs on the calyx and pedicel. Fruit fleshy, ovoid to round, yellow to purple when ripe, embedded in the persistent calyx lobes.
- licence
- cc-by-nc
- droit d’auteur
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citation bibliographique
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Diospyros mespiliformis Hochst. ex A. DC. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144030
- auteur
- Mark Hyde
- auteur
- Bart Wursten
- auteur
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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anglais
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fourni par Flora of Zimbabwe
Widespread in tropical Africa from Senegal to Eritrea and Yemen, southwards to Namibia, S Africa and southern Mozambique
- licence
- cc-by-nc
- droit d’auteur
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citation bibliographique
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Diospyros mespiliformis Hochst. ex A. DC. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144030
- auteur
- Mark Hyde
- auteur
- Bart Wursten
- auteur
- Petra Ballings