Accession #: 201500182
Accession Date: 2015-12-21
Common name: Mozambique cherry orange
Family: Rutaceae
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Country of Origin: Bostwana, Caprivi - Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Description: Shrub or small tree with arching branches. Younger branches armed with robust spines up to 2 cm long. Leaves imparipinnate with 2-4 pairs of opposite leaflets and a terminal leaflet; leaflets elliptic to obovate, covered in greyish hairs, translucent gland-dots present, strongly aromatic when crushed, margin scalloped; petiole and rhachis winged. Flowers in small branched sprays, axillary or on dwarf spur-branchlets, c. 10 mm in diameter, white or lemon-yellow. Fruit spherical, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, reddish-brown, dotted with oil glands. 3
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Source: Rob Nicholson - Smith College
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