OchnaceaeW/C = Wild Collected |
Ochna serrulata (Hochst.) Walp.
- Query IPNI
- Common Name: Bird's Eye Bush, Mickey Mouse Plant
- Family: Ochnaceae DC
- Country of Origin: subtropical (east) coast of southern Africa
- Habitat: understory in forest, though it grows in many different habitats
- 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: 1106 - AFR:East African Coastal C
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 10-26-2009
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid I
- Order: Malpighiales
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- Family: Ochnaceae
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References:
- Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
- PlantzAfrica
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