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Thymelaeaceae

W/C = Wild Collected		 Dais cotinifolia L.

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

  • Country of Origin: Madagascar to southern Africa - Eastern Cape
  • Habitat: margins of forests, wooded hill slopes and in stony kloofs

  • Description: Native to southern 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.

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

  • Culture: It is evergreen in warm areas and deciduous in cool climates.
  • USDA Zone: 11
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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199300375
  • Source: Chiltern
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1993
  • Bench: 1103 - AFR:Madagascar C
  • Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-30-2011
Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid II
  • Order: Malvales
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  • Family: Thymelaeaceae
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References:

  1. PlantzAfrica
  2. Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version

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