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Strychnos pungens
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Strychnos pungens is a tree which belongs to the Loganiaceae. Usually about 5 m (16 ft) tall, occurring in mixed woodland or in rocky places. Branches are short and rigid. Leaves are smooth, stiff, opposite, elliptic and with a sharp, spine-like tip. Occurring in South Africa on the Witwatersrand, Magaliesberg and further north to northern Namibia, northern Botswana and Zimbabwe.
- Family
- Loganiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Strychnos pungens
- Slug
- strychnos-pungens
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Loganiaceae
- Genus
- Strychnos
- Species
- pungens
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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