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Pterocelastrus rostratus

Pterocelastrus rostratus
Common names: red cherrywood, beaked pterocelastrus, red candlewood (Eng.); rooikershout, kersiehout (Afr.); ugobandlovu, usahlulamanye (Zulu); itywina (Xhosa)
Family: Celastraceae

11 / 09 / 2023 | Loretta Floors | Harold Porter NBG
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Lydenburgia cassinoides

Lydenburgia cassinoides in its natural habitat. Photo Christien Steyn
Common names: Sekhukhuni bushman's tea (Eng.); sekhukhuni-boesmanstee (Afr.); mohlolodi (Northern Sotho)
Family: Celastraceae

... the tree can be propagated like other members of the Celastraceae family, which grow easily from seed. Sow ripe ... transplanting seedlings into trays or bags. Members of the Celastraceae family are slow growing. The genus Lydenburgia ...

06 / 02 / 2023 | Ntsakisi Masia | Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
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Gymnosporia senegalensis

Gymnosporia senegalensis
Common names: red spikethorn, confetti spikethorn (Eng.); bloupendoring, rooipendoring (Afr.); sephatho, mophatho (Sepedi); sihlangu lesimhlophe (siSwati); ubuhlang
Family: Celastraceae

25 / 01 / 2021 | M.S. Mothogoane | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Putterlickia pyracantha

Putterlickia pyracantha
Common names: false spike-thorn, fire-thorn putterlickia (Eng.); valspendoring, branddoring (Afr.); intlangwana, umhlangwe, umqaqoba (Xho.)
Family: Celastraceae

12 / 10 / 2020 | Sephatle Evans Molekoa | Lowveld NBG
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Maytenus procumbens

Maytenus procumbens, fruits. (Ernst van Jaarsveld)
Common names: dune koko tree (Eng.); duinekokoboom (Afr.); umphono-phono (isiXhosa) umphophonono; (isiZulu)
Family: Celastraceae

10 / 09 / 2018 | Sisanda Alakhe Velembo-Mhlauli | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Lydenburgia abbottii

Lydenburgia abbottii
Common names: Pondo Bushman’s Tea (Eng.); pondoboesmanstee (Afr.)
Family: Celastraceae

... cultivation it should be treated like other members of the Celastraceae, such as Cassine . It can be propagated from ... near Port Edward. Lydenburgia abbottii belongs to the Celastraceae, commonly known as the spike thorn family, which ...

25 / 06 / 2018 | Lungisani Zondi | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Gymnosporia buxifolia

Gymnosporia buxifolia
Common names: spikethorn, common spikethorn, stinking spike-thorn (Eng.); gewone pendoring, pendoring, stinkdoring, lemoendoring (Afr.); ingqwangane, ubangalala, us
Family: Celastraceae

30 / 11 / 2015 | Sameer Khan | KwaZulu-Natal NBG
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Maurocenia frangula

Tree in flower
Common names: bittersweet-cherry, Hottentot's cherry, vulture berry, nastergalkersie, hottentotskersie, aasvoelbessie (Afr.)
Family: Celastraceae

... with brittle wood. Maurocenia is a monotypic genus in the Celastraceae family. It was incorrectly published as ...

17 / 11 / 2014 | Melissa Van der Burg | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Elaeodendron transvaalense

Elaeodendron transvaalense. Image copyright Geoff Nichols
Common names: bushveld saffron (Eng.); bosveldsaffraan, lepelhout (Afr.); iNgwavuma, uMgugudo (Zulu); shimapana (Tsonga); monamane (Northern Sotho)
Family: Celastraceae

... all times. Elaeodendron traanvalense  is a member of the Celastraceae family which is large, rather diverse and is ...

28 / 05 / 2007 | Mhlonishwa D Dlamini | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Maytenus oleoides

Maytenus oleoides in fruit
Common names: mountain maytenus ( Eng. ); klipkershout (Afr.)
Family: Celastraceae

... the region. Maytenus belongs in the spike-thorn family, Celastraceae, a large, cosmopolitan and diverse family of ... temperate regions of the world. In southern Africa the Celastraceae is represented by 19 genera and ± 80 species. ...

20 / 11 / 2006 | Mandy Barnes | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Mystroxylon aethiopicum

Mystroxylon aethiopicum: Photo: Geoff Nichols
Common names: kooboo-berry, spoonwood (Eng.); koeboebessie, lepelboom, lepelhout (Afr.); umbomvane, umgxube, umnqayi (Xhosa); monamane (Northern Sotho); mukwatikwat
Family: Celastraceae

... in Africa. Mystroxylon aethiopicum  belongs to the Celastraceae family, commonly known as the spike-thorn ...

10 / 10 / 2005 | Mhlonishwa D Dlamini | Walter Sisulu NBG
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Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus

Pterocelastrus tricuspidatus
Common names: candlewood, cherrywood (English), kershout, kersiehout, rooikersiehout, witpeer, witpeerhout (Afrikaans), iBholo, iTywina, uTwina (isiXhosa).
Family: Celastraceae

... Sow seeds in autumn. There are 60 -70 genera in the whole Celastraceae family, with about a thousand species in total. ...

29 / 08 / 2005 | Jane Forrester | Harold Porter NBG
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Cassine peragua

Colourful berries of Cassine peragua
Common names: Cape saffron, bastard saffron, false saffron, bastard saffronwood (Eng.); bastersaffraan, lepelhout (Afr.); iKhukhuzi (Xhosa); umKhukhuze, umBofanyamo
Family: Celastraceae

... effective in stimulating the cuttings to produce roots. Celastraceae consists of 60-70 genera and ± 1 000 species ...

20 / 06 / 2005 | Alice Notten | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Gymnosporia harveyana

Fruit and leaves
Common names: black forest spikethorn (Eng.); swartbospendoring (Afr.)
Family: Celastraceae

... and 108 in the world; the genus belongs to the family Celastraceae. Gymnosporia is an Old World genus of trees, ...

14 / 06 / 2004 | M Jordan | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Elaeodendron croceum

Fruit of E. croceum
Common names: saffron; saffron wood, forest saffron (Eng.); saffraan, bossafraan (Afr.)
Family: Celastraceae

... yellow pigments that the species shares with other Celastraceae such as Cassine peragua and Pterocelastrus ... fallen tree, the young seedlings can take its place. The Celastraceae is a large and rather diverse family distributed ... yellow pigment in the bark of many species of the family Celastraceae, including Elaeodendron croceum . Ecklon & ...

07 / 06 / 2004 | Robert Archer | National Herbarium Pretoria
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Maytenus acuminata var. acuminata 'Silky Showers'

Foliage
Common names: silky bark (Eng.); sybas (Afr.)
Family: Celastraceae

01 / 03 / 2004 | Anthony Hitchcock | Kirstenbosch NBG
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Catha edulis

Catha edulis: Photo G Nichols
Common names: Bushman's tea (Eng.); Boesmanstee (Afr.); umhlwazi (Zulu); iqgwaka (Xhosa); khat (Arabic)
Family: Celastraceae

... a habit-forming stimulant. C. edulis belongs to the Celastraceae family, commonly known as the spike thorn ...

17 / 02 / 2003 | Mhlonishwa D Dlamini | Walter Sisulu NBG
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