Shape | The crown is globe-like with leafy foliage. |
Landscape | Can be used as a landscape specimen and in parks. |
Cultivation | Prefers tropical dry forest, where the soil is more fertile with a greater nutrient holding capacity. It thrives in soils with various combinations of sand and clay. |
Habitat | Endemic to deciduous dry forests. |
Bark/Stem Description | As it matures it grows irregular grooves or cracks. |
Flower/Leaf Bud Description | The bud is about 3 mm long, small and pointed. |
Leaf Description | The leaves are compound alternate, imparipinnate. Margin is serrated or jagged and they possess a acute apex. |
Flower Description | Small flowers form in panicle-like clusters. Flowers are in full bloom between May and June. |
Fruit Description | Fruit start to appear in late June to early July. Capsule-like and spherical shaped to about 1 cm in length and 0.6 cm in width. The fruit has a bittersweet flavour, smells like anise. Not edible to humans but loved by native wild fauna such as birds, rodents and insects.
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Colour Description | Leaves are dark greenish-blue in the spring, light green in summer and pale yellow in autumn. The bark remains a greyish-purple colour. The fruit are a bright green when in capsule form and become red as fruit ripens (breaks through capsules). The flowers are lime green in colour when in clusters. |