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African osage-orange
Maclura africana
Maclura africana, also known as a thorny mulberry or African Osage orange, is a tree native to Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In South Africa it is found in the northeastern Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. The tree's FSA number is 44.1.
The species was first described as Cardiogyne africana by Louis Édouard Bureau in 1873. In 1962 Edred John Henry Corner placed the species in genus Maclura as M. africana.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 340128.