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Green monkey orange
Doringklapper · Strychnos spinosa
Named for its big cannonball fruit that monkeys and other animals crack open. The straight spines and glossy leaves make it fairly easy to pick out in the bushveld.
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A shrubby tree with glossy dark green leaves and straight paired spines, carrying large hard green fruit the size of a cricket ball that ripens to yellow. The heavy woody fruit is the giveaway.
Flowers & fruit
Greenish-white flowers in spring to summer (about September to February); fruit ripens the following winter.
Browsed by
Ripe fruit is eaten by baboon, monkeys, bushpig, nyala and eland; leaves are browsed by kudu, impala and elephant.
Where to see it in Kruger
Bushveld and woodland across the park, often on sandy or well-drained soils.
Did you know
The hard woody fruit can take almost a year to ripen, and while the ripe pulp is edible the seeds and unripe fruit contain toxic strychnine-type alkaloids.
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