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|familia=Anacardiaceae
|genus=Rhus
|species=lucida
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'''''Rhus lucida''''', Varnished Kuni-Rhus (English) Blinktaaibos (Afrikaans). This small tree has a distribution along the West Coast of [[South Africa]] from [[Saldanha Bay]] around the [[Cape of Good Hope|Cape]] and up the East Coast almost until the [[Mozambique]] border. Its distribution area also encompasses the whole of [[Kwazulu-Natal]] and stretches in an arm past [[Swaziland]], right up the Lowveld areas of [[Mpumalanga]] and into [[Limpopo Province]], almost to the [[Zimbabwe]] border. The tree seldom reaches a height of more than 2 metres and has attractive shiny leaves. It is found in scrub or forest areas from sea level to 2000 metres above. It produces small, creamy-white flowers, which bear fruits 4 mm in diameter, which are initially green and turn shiny brown as they mature. The fruits are eaten by birds.
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Rhus lucida, Linn. Glabrous shrub, to 6 ft.: branchlets sometimes pu- berulous: petiole 1/4-1/2in long, narrowly winged; lfts. sessile, obovate, obtuse or emarginate, entire, rarely slightly toothed, lustrous, distinctly veined, 1-2 1/2 in. long: panicles terminal and axillary, about as long as lvs. : fr. globose, glabrous, about 1/4n. across. S. Afr.
Rhus lucida, Linn. Glabrous shrub, to 6 ft.: branchlets sometimes pu- berulous: petiole 1/4-1/2in long, narrowly winged; lfts. sessile, obovate, obtuse or emarginate, entire, rarely slightly toothed, lustrous, distinctly veined, 1-2 1/2 in. long: panicles terminal and axillary, about as long as lvs. : fr. globose, glabrous, about 1/4n. across. S. Afr.
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==Cultivation==
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| species = '''''R. lucida'''''
==Species==
| binomial = ''Rhus lucida''
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- 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 *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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