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Giant Raisin

Grewia hexamita Burret

Description

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Shrub or small tree. Bark reddish-brown, smooth with conspicuous lenticels; young branches covered in rust-coloured woolly hairs. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic, up to 10 × 6 cm, 3-veined from a distinctly asymmetric base, shiny green, hairless and somewhat rough above, densely yellowish-white woolly below; margin toothed, somewhat rolled under. Flowers showy, golden yellow, 4-5 cm in diameter, solitary or in 2-3-flowered axillary clusters. Fruit often deeply 2-lobed or divided, each part up to 2 cm in diameter, yellowish-brown to reddish when ripe, edible but with little flesh.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Grewia hexamita Burret Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138480
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Worldwide distribution

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Tanzania (?), Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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cc-by-nc
copyright
Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Grewia hexamita Burret Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138480
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe