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This should be a small South African shrub with 5cm leaves, but that's clearly not what came up.
This is however clearly a Solanum so we can say that it is half right! Operation Wildflower say: "Solanum burchellii, in Afrikaans known as the slangappel (snake apple), is a much-branched, spiny and notably hairy shrub reaching 50 cm in height. The species is distributed in the Northern Cape and North West, as well as north of the border in Namibia, maybe Botswana. The plants grow in arid conditions on rocky slopes of the Richtersveld, the Namaqua klipkoppe and red sand flats . S. burchellii is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century. This plant resembles S. tomentosum that becomes bigger and has a wider distribution across the south of the country." |
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| 2nd August 2014 | ||