Derivation of specific name
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natalense: of Natal, South Africa
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Englerophytum natalense (Sond.) T.D. Penn. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=143770
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Description
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Small to medium-sized tree. Leaves alternate, mostly crowded near the ends of branches, obovate-lanceolate, glossy green above, covered in silvery hairs below, which may wear off in old leaves. Flowers white to cream singly or in small clusters in the leaf axils. Fruit fleshy, ovoid, red when ripe.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Englerophytum natalense (Sond.) T.D. Penn. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=143770
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- Petra Ballings
Frequency
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Rare
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Englerophytum natalense (Sond.) T.D. Penn. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=143770
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- Mark Hyde
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Worldwide distribution
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E Africa south to S Africa
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Englerophytum natalense (Sond.) T.D. Penn. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=143770
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Englerophytum natalense: Brief Summary
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Englerophytum natalense, the silver-leaf milkplum, is a medium-sized, evergreen tree that occurs along forested escarpments from East Africa to South Africa. The leaves are alternately arranged or spiralled, and to some extent crowded near the ends of branches. They are glossy green to greyish green above and covered in silvery hairs below. The stem is straight and the bark smooth. Young branches are covered with dense brownish hairs. The plant contains a milky latex.
It is a larval food plant of the butterflies Euptera pluto kinugnana, Pseudacraea boisduvalii trimeni, P. eurytus imitator and P. lucretia.
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