Summary ⁷

Sideroxylon inerme subsp. inerme (aMasethole or white milkwood, Afrikaans: wit-melkhout, Xhosa: Ximafana, Zulu: Umakhwelafingqane) is a Southern African coastal tree, with dense foliage, black berries and small, foetid, greenish flowers. The tree's generic name means "Iron-wood" in Greek, referring to its very hard timber.

Description ⁸

Evergreen shrub or small tree. Leaves elliptic to obovate-oblong covered in rusty hairs that rub off with age. Flowers greenish to white in small clusters in leaf axils or on the old wood. Fruits fleshy, purple-black when ripe, containing milky latex.

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1. (c) magdastlucia, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by magdastlucia
2. (c) Mark Hyde, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/14/143710-1.jpg
3. (c) Mark Hyde, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/14/143710-2.jpg
4. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/14/143710-3.jpg
5. (c) Bart Wursten, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/images/14/143710-4.jpg
6. (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://data.rbge.org.uk/images/127959/700
7. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideroxylon_inerme
8. (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/30285154

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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