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Accession Data:

Turraea floribunda Hochst.

  • Common Name: Honeysuckle tree
  • Family: Meliaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: eastern Africa
  • Habitat: evergreen forest and kopjes

  • Description: Deciduous scrambling shrub or small tree. Bark light to dark brown somewhat roughish; young branches, finely hairy, reddish to purple-brown. Leaves alternate, ovate to lanceolate, up to 14 × 7 cm, bristly hairy when young, mostly hairless when mature, veining sunken above; margin entire. Flowers in many-flowered axillary clusters, large, sweetly scented, creamy to greenish-white; petals linear, up to 5.5 × 0.3 cm; staminal tube up to 4.5 cm long. Fruit a subspherical woody capsule, c. 2.4 cm in diameter, splitting into 5 valves, revealing seeds covered with an orange-red aril.2

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500216
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1112 - AFR: Cola
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 04-07-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid II
  • Order: Sapindales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Meliaceae
  • SubFamily: Melioideae
  • Tribe: Turraeeae
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Zaire / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Malawi / Mozambique / Zimbabwe / Cape Provinces / KwaZulu-Natal / Swaziland

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, September 04, 2017.
  2. Turraea floribunda in Flora of Zimbabwe. Last accessed 20 October 2015.
  3. Turraea floribunda at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Monday, September 04, 2017.

data regenerated on Mon, 07 Apr 2025 08:24:02 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Turraea floribunda

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Subfamily Melioideae
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Subfamily Melioideae
Tribe Turraeeae

  • Turraea floribunda
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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