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Ochna puberula
Species of plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ochna puberula is a shrub or small sized tree with bright yellow petals that are surrounded by green sepals that turn red during fruiting.[1] It belongs to the family Ochnaceae.[2]
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Description
A shrub or small sized tree capable of reaching 6 m tall with a greyish bark that is either smooth or fissured.[3] When young, its stems have brownish lenticels on it. Leaves have stipules that are up to 8 mm long. Leaflets are obovate to oblanceolate in shape and their edges are often densely toothed, they are capable of reaching 8 cm in length and 3 cm in width, they have a rounded apex and a cuneate base.[3] Inflorescence are in axillary racemes with yellow flowers borne on shortly pubescent pedicels.[1]
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Distribution
Occurs in Eastern and Southern Africa, in south western Uganda southwards to Zimbabwe.[4] Found in open woodland and wooded grasslands and in rocky areas.
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