Cryptocarya woodii

Cryptocarya woodii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Laurales
Family:	Lauraceae
Genus:	Cryptocarya
Species:	C. woodii
Binomial name
	Cryptocarya woodii; Engl.

Cryptocarya woodii, the Cape quince, is a shrub or small forest tree, native to southern and eastern Africa. Its Latin name commemorates John Medley Wood, a botanist in Natal. From mid summer the tree bears small, inconspicuous flowers.^[1] The ripe fruit have a bumpy surface and are shiny, purple-black in colour. When a leaf is viewed against light some minute secretory glands are visible in the vein polygons (areolae).^[2] The larvae of Papilio euphranor and Charaxes xiphares breed on the foliage of this tree.

References[]

^ Mbambezeli, Giles, Cryptocarya woodii Engl.
^ Van Wyk, Braam; et al. (2007), How to Identify Trees in Southern Africa, Struik, p. 28, ISBN 1770072403

External links[]

Cryptocarya woodii, Green Planet

Media related to Cryptocarya woodii at Wikimedia Commons

[1] Mbambezeli, Giles, Cryptocarya woodii Engl.

[2] Van Wyk, Braam; et al. (2007), How to Identify Trees in Southern Africa, Struik, p. 28, ISBN 1770072403

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