Description
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Mostly a robust woody climber but occasionally a shrub or small tree, armed with sharp, paired, hooked thorns. All young parts are densely velvety. Leaves alternate, oblong to broadly elliptic, grey-green, covered in velvet hairs; margins entire. Flowers quite showy, yellowish-green with a mass of long white or pinkish stamens. Fruit large, up to 4 cm, pink to orange when ripe. The fruits hang from a long stalk-like branch called a gynophore.
Fuentes y créditos
- (c) Rob Burrett, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC),
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/124460-1.jpg
- (c) Rob Burrett, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC),
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/124460-2.jpg
- (c) Bart Wursten, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC),
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/124460-4.jpg
- (c) Bart Wursten, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC),
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/12/124460-5.jpg
- (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, algunos derechos reservados (CC BY-NC),
http://eol.org/data_objects/19237099
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