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VELVET RAISINS
INFORMATION IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
ENGLISH SHONA SETSWANA
ZWIWANA MORETLWA
INFORMATION IN ENGLISH
Dense multi-stemmed shrub, up to 2 m tall, occasionally a taller small tree.
Bark dark grey-brown; young branches velvety, becoming dark purple-black.
Leaves alternate, often held upright, elliptic to oblanceolate-obovate, up to 7 × 2.5 cm, 3-
veined from the almost symmetric base, grey-green above, paler below, finely hairy on
both surfaces or more so below; margin finely to somewhat coarsely toothed. Flowers
yellow fading to orange-brown, 1.5 cm in diameter, solitary or in few-flowered axillary
heads. Fruit spherical or 2lobed, c. 8 mm in diameter, reddish-brown when ripe, edible.
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