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SNOT APPLE
ENGLISH SETSWANA SHONA
SNOT APPLE MOROJWA MATOWA
INFORMATION IN ENGLISH
Description: Tree to 10 m. Leaves: lamina up to 20 × 20
cm, subcircular in outline, palmately 3-
5lobed, with a linear fissure 5-10 mm long on
the mid-vein beneath; stellate-pubescent to
nearly glabrous above, stellate-tomentose to
pubescent beneath; base cordate; apex
usually blunt or rounded; margin entire.
Flowers c. 6 cm in diameter, yellow or
purplish with dark purple or dark red centre.
Epicalyx teeth 9-10, up to 12 mm, caducous.
Calyx c.10 mm. Fruit a capsule, up to 4 × 3
cm, subspherical to broadly ellipsoid or
ovoid, glutinous. Seeds c. 10 × 7 mm,
hemispheric, with a brownish woolly floss.
Notes: Readily recognisable by the distinctive
longitudinal fissure on the mid-vein beneath.
This may be differently coloured to the rest
of the leaf or not and may be of various
sizes.
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