Kiggelaria africana L.

africana: African

Small to medium-sized tree. Leaves spirally arranged, oblong-elliptic, dark green above, much paler, bluish-green or yellow-green beneath; margin entire or obscurely toothed. Flowers pale yellow to greenish, axillary, unisexual, sexes on different trees. Female flowers solitary; male flowers in sparsely branched heads. Fruit a spherical capsule, greyish yellow-green, rough and tuberculate on the outside, splitting into 5 valves, revealing black seeds in a sticky orange-red coating.

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