Accession Data

Halleria lucida

Common Name: Tree Fuchsia, African Honeysuckle

Family: Stilbaceae

Country of Origin: South Africa, Natal

Description: A straggling understory shrub in its native habitat, this forms a neat bush in cultivation, evergreen with ovate leaves and nodding scarlet flowers and violet-black fruit.

Uses: Fruit edible in times of famine.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 9a-11

Accession #: 199900554

Accession Date: 1999-09-30 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1118

Quantity: 2

Source: Lisa Palmer - Dartmouth

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Lamiales

Family: Stilbaceae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. Nestlebrae Seed Catalogue
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 16 April 2015.
  3. CJB African Plants Database. Accessed 16 April 2015.

Images

Halleria lucida