Loganiaceae - Anthocleista, Fagraea, Geniostoma, Labordia, Neuburgia, Strychnos, Strychnos Spinosa, Logania, Strychnine Tree, Strych (Paperback)

Chapters: Anthocleista, Fagraea, Geniostoma, Labordia, Neuburgia, Strychnos, Strychnos Spinosa, Logania, Strychnine Tree, Strychnos Pungens, Spigelia Marilandica, Tembusu, Strychnos Ignatia, Strychnos Millepunctata, Fagraea Berteriana, Anthocleista Scandens, Labordia Cyrtandrae, Anthocleista Microphylla, Usteria, Strychnos Elaeocarpa, Labordia Lydgatei, Labordia Kaalae, Strychnos Staudtii, Labordia Hirtella, Geniostoma Quadrangulare, Strychnos Benthami, Strychnos Chromatoxylon, Geniostoma Uninervium, Strychnos Tetragona, Fagraea Gracilipes, Geniostoma Confertiflorum, Geniostoma Gagneae, Fagraea Carstensensis, Geniostoma Clavigerum, Geniostoma Umbellatum, Neuburgia Macrocarpa, Geniostoma Macrophyllum, Strychnos Mellodora, Neuburgia Tubiflora, Geniostoma Astylum, Geniostoma Stipulare, Neuburgia Collina, Neuburgia Macroloba, Neuburgia Alata, Geniostoma Rapense. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 101. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Strychnos spinosa is a tree indigenous to tropical and subtropical Africa. It produces juicy, sweet-sour, yellow fruits, containing numerous hard brown seeds. Greenish-white flowers grow in dense heads at the ends of branches (Sep-Feb/Spring - summer). The fruit tend to appear only after good rains. The smooth, hard fruit are large and green, ripen to yellow color. Inside the fruit are tightly packed seeds surrounded by a fleshy, edible covering. Animals such as baboon, monkeys, bushpig, nyala and eland eat the fruit. The leaves are a popular food source for browsers such as duiker, kudu, impala, steenbok, nyala and elephant. It is believed that various insects pollinate the flowers. Common names: Spiny Monkey-orange/Green Monkey Orange (English) Doringklapper (Afrikaans) Morapa (NS) umKwakwa (Swaziland) Nsala (Tswana) Mutamba (Shona) Maboque (Angola) This...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=7176575