Grewia lasiocarpa E.Mey. ex Harv.

Shrub or sometimes with straggling or climbing branches up to about 5 m tall; young branches coarsely stellate-pubescent but soon becoming purplish brown and glabrous. Leaf-blade up to 150 x 150 mm but usually about 80 x 70 mm, broadly ovate or broadly obovate to almost orbicular, apex rounded to obtuse, base rounded or slightly cordate, margin coarsely crenate-dentate, slightly scabrous-pubescent above, more densely and softly pubescent below, strongly 3-nerved from the base; petiole up to 20 mm long, coarsely stellate-pubescent; stipules very caducous, not seen. Inflorescences 2-4-flowered, opposite the leaves; peduncles 10-20 mm long, densely ferruginously hirsute; pedicels similar, 5-10 mm long, expanding to 20 mm long in fruit; bracts caducous, up to 12 x 7 mm, lanceolate to ovate, apex acute, densely appressed-tomentose on both sides. Sepals 13-17 x 3-5 mm, narrowly oblong, apex acute, only slightly hooded, ferruginously tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals pink, about 3/4 the length of the sepals, blade narrowly oblong-elliptic, basal nectariferous claw 3-4 mm long, slightly wider than the blade, very densely circumvillous, ledged above. Androgynophore glabrous below for about 3 mm, tomentose above for about 1.5 mm. Ovary 4-lobed, densely villous; style 10 mm long, glabrous; stigma-lobes broad. Fruit up to 20 mm in diam., somewhat fleshy, 4-lobed, coarsely and eventually rather sparsely hirsute.

It is a subtropical to Mediterranean climate plant. It grows on the edges of evergreen forest. In South Africa it grows between 5-1,220 m above sea level. It can tolerate frost. It is best with high rianfall.

The fruit are eaten raw.

Seeds that have passed through animals germinate easily. Plants can be grown from seed. Seeds germinate in 4-6 weeks. It can also be grown from hardwood cuttings.