Turraea floribunda Hochst.

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By road to camp site, Maleme Dam, Matobo National Park

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Maleme Dam camp

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Synonyms:	Turraea heterophylla sensu Sond.
Common names:	Honeysuckle tree (English)
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Description:	Deciduous scrambling shrub or small tree. Bark light to dark brown somewhat roughish; young branches, finely hairy, reddish to purple-brown. Leaves alternate, ovate to lanceolate, up to 14 × 7 cm, bristly hairy when young, mostly hairless when mature, veining sunken above; margin entire. Flowers in many-flowered axillary clusters, large, sweetly scented, creamy to greenish-white; petals linear, up to 5.5 × 0.3 cm; staminal tube up to 4.5 cm long. Fruit a subspherical woody capsule, c. 2.4 cm in diameter, splitting into 5 valves, revealing seeds covered with an orange-red aril.
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Derivation of specific name:	floribunda: with abundant flowers
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Flowering time:	Oct - Feb
Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and South Africa as far as the Eastern Cape.
Growth form(s):	Tree, shrub over 2 m.
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Insects associated with this species:	Pseudaphelia apollinaris (Food plant)
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Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 385. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 57. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 22. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 249. 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 62. White, F. & Styles, B.T. (1963). Meliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Pages 309 - 315. (Includes a picture).

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