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Ochnaceae

Ochna serrulata (Hochst.) Walp.

  • Query IPNI
  • Common Name: Bird's Eye Bush, Mickey Mouse Plant
  • Family: Ochnaceae DC

  • Country of Origin: South Africa
  • Habitat:

  • Description: [syn. Ochna multiflora Hort., not D.C.; O. japonica Hort.; O. serratifolia Hort.]

    Shrub to 5 feet, branches roughened by many lenticels; leaves narrowly elliptic, to 2.4 inches long, sharply serrulate; flowers 1 to several, on short spurs, sepals broadly elliptic, yellow-green, becoming enlarged and oblong in age, strongly reflexed and bright red in fruit, petals obovate; drupes ellipsoid, becoming black when mature, on enlarged red receptacle. Perhaps not specifically distinct from Ochna atropurpurea.

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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198502400
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 3311 - W Bench
  • Qty: 2 confirmed on 05-05-2008
Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid I
  • Order: Malpighiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Ochnaceae
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References:

Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976

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