False Marula Lannea stuhlmannii

• The bark is grey and flakes in longitudinal strips when older.
• They can be found growing from Tanzania to Kwazulu-Natal, on well-drained gravelly soil, produced from igneous rock.
• Male flowers are long spikes; creamy yellow in colour, male flowers being longer than female flowers, produced from October to January.
• Fruit is reddish in colour, round in shape and slightly flattened, produced from November to March.
• Duiker, Nyala, giraffe, Bushbuck and kudu feed on the leaves.
• Ripe fruit is eaten by birds like grey hornbills, grey louries, pied and black collared barbets, brown headed parrots and red-faced mousebirds.
• Animals like kudu, warthog, Vervet monkeys and baboon; elephant feeding on bark and young shoots also eat the fruit.
• The fruit of this tree is edible, although the skin is not eaten.
• A paste made from the leaves is used to treat sores and abscesses.