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|familia=Loganiaceae
| common_names = <!--- if multiple, list all, if none, leave blank -->
|genus=Strychnos
| growth_habit = ? <!--- tree, shrub, herbaceous, vine, etc -->
|species=spinosa
| high = ? <!--- 1m (3 ft) -->
|common_name=Natal orange
| wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
| origin = ? <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc -->
|habit=tree
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'''''Strychnos spinosa''''' is a tree indigenous to tropical and subtropical [[Africa]]. It produces juicy, sweet-sour, yellow fruits, containing numerous hard brown seeds. Greenish-white flowers grow in dense heads at the ends of branches (Sep-Feb/Spring - summer). The [[fruit]] tend to appear only after good rains. The smooth, hard fruit are large and green, ripen to yellow color. Inside the fruit are tightly packed seeds surrounded by a fleshy, edible covering.
Common names : Spiny Monkey-orange/Green Monkey Orange ([[English language|English]]) Doringklapper ([[Afrikaans]]) Morapa (NS) umKwakwa (Swaziland) Nsala ([[Tswana language|Tswana]]) Mutamba ([[Shona language|Shona]]) Maboque (Angola)
This tree can be found growing singly in well-drained soils. It is capable of growing on semi-arid and arid lands.
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Strychnos spinosa, Lam. Low tree: branchlets slender, armed with pungent spines from the nodes: lvs. obovate or suborbicular, 5-nerved from near the base, glabrous, subcoriaceous: cymes short, dense, terminal, very compound: fls. greenish; calyx-tube very short, segms. linear; corolla-tube short, campanulate, the lobes usually 5, ovate: fr. the size and color of an orange, the shell leathery, the pulp abundant and edible; seeds large. Trop. and S. Afr., Madagascar, and Seychelles. — A promising fr. intro. into the S. U.S.
Strychnos spinosa, Lam. Low tree: branchlets slender, armed with pungent spines from the nodes: lvs. obovate or suborbicular, 5-nerved from near the base, glabrous, subcoriaceous: cymes short, dense, terminal, very compound: fls. greenish; calyx-tube very short, segms. linear; corolla-tube short, campanulate, the lobes usually 5, ovate: fr. the size and color of an orange, the shell leathery, the pulp abundant and edible; seeds large. Trop. and S. Afr., Madagascar, and Seychelles. — A promising fr. intro. into the S. U. S.
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==References==
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<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
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