Ziziphus mucronata
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Straight and hook thorns
24 Sep 2008
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Leaves, thorns and flowers
13 Dec 2008
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Flowers
13 Dec 2008
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Flowers
18 Dec 2006
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Leaves and flowers
17 Dec 2007
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Habit
01 Nov 2005
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Full name: | Ziziphus mucronata Willd. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Blinkblaar wag-'n-bietjie, Wag-'n-bietjie |
| English common name(s): | Buffalo thorn, Wait a bit, Cape thorn, Buffalo-thorn jujube, Cat thorn, Bogwood |
| Synonym(s): | Ziziphus mucronata Willd. subsp. mucronata Ziziphus baclei DC. Ziziphus madecassus H.perrier (1943) Ziziphus adelensis Delile Ziziphus bubaliana Schult. Ziziphus mitis A.Rich. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Shrubs or small trees to 15(–30) m tall, armed with spinous stipules or rarely unarmed. Bark of bole dark grey, smooth to rough to corrugated;slash-wood crimson, soft. Year-old branches often zig-zag. Leaf-blades ovate, (2–)3–6(–8) cm long, (l.3–)2–3.5(–4.7) cm wide, at base often markedly asymmetrical, rounded or rarely very shallowly cordate, acute, often acuminate or rarely obtuse, serrulate, 3-nerved from base, the nerves of the dull upper surface only slightly if at all impressed; petioles 2–7 mm long. Cymes (5–)10–15 mm long, and about as thick, (3–)7–25-flowered; peduncles 1–3 mm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long in flower, 3–5 mm long in fruit. Sepals 1.5–2 mm long, spreading in flower. Petals 1–1.5 mm long, spreading in flower. Ovary 2-celled; stigmas 2. Fruit globose, 12–20 mm thick, reddish or reddish brown at maturity. (from JSTOR website) Shrub or tree up to 10 m or more tall, usually spiny but sometimes unarmed; bark dark grey, fissured; branchlets reddish to brownish. Leaves glabrous or puberulous on petiole and midrib; petiole 2–13 mm long; blade ovate, 2–9 x 1.5–6 cm, serrulate or crenulate, usually acute to acuminate at the apex, often asymmetrical at the base. Flowers glabrous, yellowish-green, in few- to many-flowered cymes. Sepals 1.5–2 mm long. Petals 1–1.5 mm long. Drupe 10–15 mm in diam., reddish. (from JSTOR website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 22 Nov 2011 |
