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Description

Tree

Nuxia floribunda, Nuxia dentate, Nuxia schlechten, Lachnopylis floribunda.

RSA Tree No. 634.

Common names: Forest Elder, Forest Nuxia, Water Nuxia, Water Elder, Watervlier, White Elder, Wild-Elder, Kite Tree, Wild Peach, Bosvlier.

Family: Stilbaceae – was Scrophulariaceae but moved after molecular studies. The 11 genera in this family include Bowkeria, Halleria and Nuxia and there are nearly 150 species. Members of this family have simple and entire leaves that lack stipules and have non-stellate hairs present. Flowers are bisexual and zygomorphic and the corolla is funnel-shaped. The stamens are epipetalous and the superior ovary has 2 locules each with 1 ovule.

Name derivation: Nuxia named after M. de la Nux a French botanist on Reunion Island. floribunda – many flowers. There are 5 species of the genus Nuxia in the Southern Africa.

Conservation Status: L C. Least Concern. 2009 (Raimondo et al.).

Tree is usually from 3-10m high but can be up to 25m with a rounded canopy. Trunk is up to 60cm wide and may be twisted or crooked especially in smaller trees. The Crown may be large and rounded. The stringy, fibrous Bark is pale grey to grey-brown, initially smooth, becoming roughish and slightly fissured when older. Long flaking strips may be seen. Twigs (1-year-old current branch segments) are angular to squarish and are and finely hairy. They are initially purplish, and marked with raised leaf scars. Nodes (joint from where the leaves may arise) are slightly swollen.

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