Canthium suberosum
Codd
Corky bark canthium
RubiaceaeFruit
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The small oval fruit are eaten.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant. It grows on rocky hillsides. It grows in open woodland in mountainous areas.
Africa, Eswatini, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A small evergreen tree. It grows 8 m tall. The crown is dense and rounded. The trunk is thick and corky. The bark is grey and smooth. The leaf nodes are prominent and have tufts of silky hairs. The leaves are opposite and leathery. They are 3-7 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. They are pale or blue-green. The fruit are small and oval. They can be 1 cm long. They have a circular scar around the tip.
Notes
There are about 60-200 Canthium species.
References (2)
- Long, C., 2005, Swaziland's Flora - siSwati names and Uses http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora/
- www.theplantlist.org
