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Strychnos spinosa : ウィキペディア英語版 | Strychnos spinosa
''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 fruits tend to appear only after good rains. It is related to the deadly ''Strychnos nux-vomica'', which contains strychnine. The smooth, hard fruit are large and green, ripen to yellow colour. Inside the fruit are tightly packed seeds (toxic?) 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/Green Monkey Orange (English) Doringklapper (Afrikaans) Morapa (NS) umKwakwa (Swaziland) Nsala (Tswana) Mutamba (Shona) Maboque (Angola) Eguni (sing)/Maguni (pl) (Namibia) iHlala (isiZulu) Kikwakwa (Kiswahili) Massala (Mozambique Portuguese) Maku (Tiv), Fole (Guinea Bissau). ==Distribution== This tree can be found growing singly in well-drained soils. It is found in bushveld, riverine fringes, sand forest and coastal bush from the Eastern Cape to Kwazulu-Natal northwards to Mozambique, and inland to Swaziland, Zimbabwe, northern Botswana northern Namibia, Angola to tropical Africa, and north west Madagascar. It is able to grow in semi-arid and arid lands.
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