WorldFloraDB - Cussonia thyrsiflora

Characteristics

Perennial, scrambling shrub to small tree, up to 5 m high. Bark pale grey, corky, branches marked with prominent leaf scars. Leaves mono-digitate, with 6-9 simple leaflets, obovate, 50-80 x 20-40 mm, lower surface pale green, midrib prominent, upper surface dark glossy green, base tapering, apex broadly tapering, margins entire to slightly toothed around apex, revolute; petioles 50-150 mm long, sometimes winged; petiolules absent. Flowers in spike of umbels, comprising 6-12 short racemes, 20-100 x 10-20 mm; greenish yellow, on short stalks. Flowering time Nov.-Jan. Fruit in umbel of spikes; green-yellow, fleshy, up to 4 mm in diam., purple (Apr.-June).

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An evergreen shrub. It has irregular branching. It grows 5 m tall. It can be scrambling and has an umbrella shaped crown. The leaves are compound with leaflets spread out like fingers on a hand. The leaflets are broadly oval and dark green and shiny above and more pale underneath. They have irregular teeth in the upper part. The flowers are in a dense spike at the top. The fruit is a small round berry.

Sprawling shrub or tree to 5 m. Leaves 6-8-digitate, leaflets obovate, sometimes slightly toothed above. Flower spikes umbellate, greenish yellow.

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It is a Mediterranean climate plant. It grows in coastal regions and on sand dunes.

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The root tuber is peeled and eaten raw.

Uses	medicinal
Edible	roots
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