Records confirmed by Mark Hyde

Bark on branches unusually shiny and flaking.

iNaturalist record

Grows incredibly well in Harare and only drops leaf for 3-4 weeks in September

Medium-sized tree producing copious white latex, bearing a few fruit on the main trunk and branches. Leaves obovate, shiny, dark green.

Sourced from the Vumba

In full flower

This is the first record for the Western division of Zimbabwe. Stephen Long, the finder, reported that "the plant is growing on a mound of earth that was left on an abandoned road a couple of years ago by a DDF roads team so I'd guess the seed fell off a vehicle that had previously been working on a road somewhere in the communal lands".

Fruit 5-winged

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/145251194

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144972728

Very prominent pinnate and sometimes partially 2-pinnate stipules.

It could have been introduced even as a food source when a caretaker was having a small garden there; now I see it in different places. - JvB, 16 April 2025.

Bought from Emerald Seedlings

"Though it has been used for hedging almost every yard in Serowe I have not seen mature trees here before" - Tony Benn, 9 September 2016

Medium-sized tree, large for this species

Same tree as record 98735.

Pale yellow flowered form. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195187423

In flower. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194484443

Parasite on Populus deltoides. iNaturalist record

Parasite on Fraxinus angustifolia. iNaturalist record

Parasite on Morus alba. iNaturalist record

In flower

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109523824

From Nyanga

Prostrate perennial; leaves with 3-4 pairs of opposite leaflets plus terminal

Photograph sent to me by Dorothy Wakeling (MAH)

Escaped small plant

Tree with rather small fruit.

Single plant, non-flowering, c 2m tall. Earlier discovered by Peter Buttress who showed the plant on this date.

The species is dominant along the main road. {Altitude estimated]

Very common on this plot.

Fruit present, black.

Record on iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55292961

In fruit

Single tree c. 4 m tall. Flowers white, mostly in bud. One fruit seen.

iNaturalist record

Specimen checked, not kept.

Just coming into flower; originally bought from Emerald Seedlings. Sepals greenish-yellow. Tube frilly at the apex.

No other plant material in the near vicinity