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Diospyros dichrophylla
Also called Poison Peach, Monkey Plum, Poison Star Apple, Poison Starapple, Star Apple, Common Star Apple
Monkey apple is a medium-sized, multi-stemmed tree from southern Africa, related to persimmon, that forms a dense canopy. It grows best in moist, high-rainfall coastal conditions and is grown mainly as a landscape or wild shrub-tree rather than a common houseplant.
Diospyros dichrophylla (Gand.) De Winter (known as the "poison star-apple" or "Bostolbos") is a Southern African tree belonging to the ebony family of Ebenaceae and closely related to the Persimmon (Diospyros kaki).
This species is common in coastal scrub, on coastal sandy flats, and along the edges of forests. It is found along a wide coastal belt from Montagu and the Overberg region in the Western Cape, eastward and northwards through the Eastern Cape and along the KwaZulu/Natal coast, in Eswatini, along the Lebombo Mountains and the Soutpansberg, and further north to Mozambique.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Diospyros dichrophylla 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.
