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Margaritaria discoidea
Also called Hairy Peacockberry
Margaritaria discoidea is a tree or shrub native to warm, higher-rainfall parts of tropical and southern Africa, grown mainly in its native range rather than as a garden or houseplant. It is a species in the Phyllanthaceae family, and growth is usually straight-stemmed as a tree in forest or as a small tree or shrub in drier, open areas.
Margaritaria discoidea is a tree in the family Phyllanthaceae, commonly known as the pheasant-berry, egossa red pear or bushveld peacock-berry. These trees are native to the warmer, higher rainfall areas of Africa.
This species is distributed from the coastal areas of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, to tropical Africa, as far as Senegal in West Africa.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Margaritaria discoidea 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.
