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Searsia lucida
Also called Glossy Currantrhus, Shiny Leaved Rhus, Wax Leaved Crowberry, Wax Leaved Rhus, Waxy Currant, Waxy Currant Rhus, Waxy Currantrhus
Searsia lucida is a small, shiny-leaved shrub or small tree from southern and eastern Africa, usually under 2 m tall, grown mainly as a hardy garden shrub. It is tolerant of a range of conditions once established.
Searsia lucida, previously known as Rhus lucida, and commonly known as the varnished kuni-rhus (English) or blinktaaibos (Afrikaans).
This small tree has a distribution along the West Coast of South Africa from Saldanha Bay around the Cape and up the East Coast almost until the Mozambique border. Its distribution area also encompasses Lesotho and the whole of Kwazulu-Natal and stretches in an arm past Eswatini, right up the Lowveld areas of Mpumalanga and into Limpopo Province and Zimbabwe.
Searsia leptodictya · Bramble Crowberry · Blue Fruited Currant Rhus · River Currant · Karoo Tree · White Karee · Searsia pentaphylla · Searsia pyroides · Bicoloured crowberry
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Searsia lucida 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.
