Common name: Tree Fuchsia, African Honeysuckle
Family: Stilbaceae
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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.
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USDA Zone: 9a-11
Source: Lisa Palmer - Dartmouth
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- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: euasterid I
- Order: Lamiales
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- Family: Stilbaceae
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References:
- Nestlebrae Seed Catalogue
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 16 April 2015.
- CJB African Plants Database. Accessed 16 April 2015.
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