Accession #: 198502400
Accession Date: 1985-12-31
Common name: Mickey Mouse Plant
Family: Ochnaceae
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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.
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USDA Zone: 9b-11
Source: Unknown
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