Thymelaeaceae

• Dais cotinifolia
• Daphne bholua
• Edgeworthia papyrifera
• Wikstroemia monticola

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• Common Name: Posybush, Torch Tree
• Family: Thymelaeaceae Juss.

• Country of Origin: Madagascar
• Habitat:

• Description: Native to Africa, this bushy, rounded shrub or small tree grows to about 10 ft (3 m). It has reddish bark and oval, blue-green leaves up to 3 in (7 cm) in length. In late spring it bears fragrant flower clusters of tubular pink blooms. It is evergreen in warm areas and deciduous in cool climates.

  Bark yields a strong fiber used by natives of Natal as thread.