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Accession Data

Ochna serrulata

Common Name: Mickey Mouse Plant

Family: Ochnaceae

Country of Origin: subtropical (east) coast of southern Africa

Description: [syn. Ochna multiflora Hort., not D.C.; O. japonica Hort.; O. serratifolia Hort.]

Shrub to 5 feet, branches roughened by many lenticels; leaves narrowly elliptic, to 2.4 inches long, sharply serrulate; flowers 1 to several, on short spurs, sepals broadly elliptic, yellow-green, becoming enlarged and oblong in age, strongly reflexed and bright red in fruit, petals obovate; drupes ellipsoid, becoming black when mature, on enlarged red receptacle. Perhaps not specifically distinct from Ochna atropurpurea.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 9b-11

Accession #: 198502400

Accession Date: 1985-12-31

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1116

Quantity: 2

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: eurosid I

Order: Malpighiales

Family: Ochnaceae

SubFamily: Ochnoideae

Tribe: Ochneae

SubTribe: Ochninae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. Ochna serrulata at PlantzAfrica. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, August 08, 2016.
  4. Ochna serrulata at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Monday, August 08, 2016.
  5. Ochna serrulata at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.

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