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Canthium inerme
Also called Cape Date, Common Turkeyberry, Criss Cross Turkeyberrie, Turkey Berry, Turkeyberry, Unarmed Turkeyberry
Canthium inerme is a tough, adaptable evergreen tree from southern Africa, usually small to medium sized, with glossy leaves and small fruits that stay on the tree. It is grown mainly as a garden tree or security hedge and is easy to raise from seed.
Canthium inerme (Turkey-berry) is a tough, adaptable medium-sized tree from South Africa. It bears small edible fruits and has a variety of uses in traditional medicine.
It has a wide distribution, occurring from Cape Town in the south, along the eastern coast of South Africa as far as Mozambique and inland as far as Zimbabwe, including Natal, Eswatini and Transvaal.
In a garden, this hardy evergreen tree attracts birds, while also serving as a possible security hedge. To assure a typical tree shape, prune off the lower branches. It is known to grow very easily from seed.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Canthium inerme by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
