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Azima tetracantha

Botanic Family

Salvadoraceae

Author

Lamarck

Common Names

• Filofilo

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Bangladesh
• Burundi
• Comoros
• India
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Oman
• Rwanda
• Aldabra - Seychelles
• Somalia
• Cape Provinces
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Coastal

Flowering Times

• Apr
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Mar
• Jun
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct

Spiny dioecious climber or shrub to 5m with tetragonal branches, large spines to 50mm or more long. Glabrous mucronate coriaceous leaves 50mm x 45mm. Axillary yellowish-green flowers in spikes or panicles with bracts, calyx to 4mm long with 4 teeth, greenish-white petals to 5mm long. Round green to whitish berry to 8mm diameter with persistent stigma, unpleasant smell.

Weed potential

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• FZ