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Searsia chirindensis
Also called Assegai Wood, Bush Jarrah, Red Crowberry, Red Currant Crowberry, Sour Berry, Tree Currant
Searsia chirindensis is a medium-sized, semi-deciduous tree from southern Africa, usually 10 m tall, that grows in open woodland, forest margins and rocky slopes. It is grown mainly for its shade and berries rather than as a container plant, so it suits a warm, frost-free garden with room to spread.
Searsia chirindensis is a medium-sized, semi-deciduous, trifoliate Southern African dioecious tree of up to 10 m tall, rarely 20 m, often multi-stemmed, occurring along the coastal belt from the Cape, through KwaZulu/Natal, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and Mozambique as far north as Tanzania, and growing in a wide variety of habitats such as open woodlands, in forests, along forest margins, in the open, among rocks and on mountain slopes. It was named by Swynnerton from a specimen collected by him near the Chirinda Forest in the Chipinge District of Southern Rhodesia. This is one of more than a hundred southern African species in the genus. It is commonly known as red currant because of a fancied resemblance of the fruit to that of the European redcurrant.
Branches dull brown or blackish (when dried), cylindric, pubescent or glabrous. Petiole 1·5–6·5 cm.
Searsia leptodictya · Wilgerkorentebos · Searsia aucheri · Bramble Crowberry · Searsia brenanii · Blue Fruited Currant Rhus · Nana Currant Rhus · Broom Karee · River Currant · Blue Kuni Bush · Blue-fruited crowberry · Karoo Tree
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Searsia chirindensis 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.
