Operation Wildflower
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Articles
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
Home Home » TYPES » Trees » Zanthoxylum capense fruit
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 10,504
Total number of hits on all images: 5,163,458

Zanthoxylum capense fruit

Zanthoxylum capense fruit
Start View full size
[Please activate JavaScript in order to see the slideshow]
Previous Previous
Image 641 of 647  
Next Next
Image 643 of 647  
  • Widdringtonia nodiflora
  • Xanthocercis zambesiaca
  • Xanthocercis zambesiaca, a nyala tree getting old
  • Ximenia americana var. microphylla
  • Ximenia americana var. microphylla fruit
  • Ximenia caffra
  • Ximenia caffra var. natalensis branches
  • Xylotheca kraussiana
  • Xylotheca kraussiana flower
  • Xymalos monospora leaves
  • Zanthoxylum capense at Hekpoort
  • Zanthoxylum capense fruit
  • Zanthoxylum capense leaves
  • Zanthoxylum capense ripe fruit
  • Zanthoxylum capense translucent leaves
  • Zanthoxylum capense trunk
  • Zanthoxylum capense young stem

Image information

Description

The fruits of Zanthoxylum capense are small, only about 3 mm to 5 mm in diameter.  They are red or red-brown with shiny surfaces, produced in clusters among the green foliage.  The fruit has a coarse surface due to many tiny glands found on it.  When ripe, the fruit splits open, revealing a shiny black seed with an oily appendage. 

Birds, particularly mousebirds and barbets feed on the fruits that may be found on the tree from late spring to winter. The fruit tastes of lemon, leaving a persistent burning sensation in the mouth, worth experiencing once… maybe (Schmidt, et al, 2002; Coates Palgrave, 2002; Grant, et al, undated).

Hits
752
Author
Jack Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery