Brick Red Ochna

schweinfurthiana: named after Dr Georg August Schweinfurth (1836-1925), german botanical collector and taxonomist.

Small tree. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong or elliptic, margins rather bluntly serrulate, sometimes appearing scalloped, net-veining conspicuous above. Young leaves coppery. Flowers bright yellow, very short-lived, normally appearing before or with the young leaves. Fruits ovoid, attached at the base, black when ripe, the enlarged, persistent sepals turning cherry to brick red.

Common

Sahelian & Zambesian: Mali to S. Sudan to Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Angola.