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Sorindeia juglandifolia

Sorindeia juglandifolia is a scrambling shrub or small tree from tropical and southern Africa, grown in the wild and valued locally for its edible fruit. It is a wild African species rarely cultivated as a garden plant, so care needs are not well documented.

Family
Anacardiaceae (Cashew family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Temperature
Wet tropical climate; frost-intolerant.
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Trop. & S. Africa
Climate
wet tropical

About

Sorindeia juglandifolia is a species of scrambling shrub or tree within the family Anacardiaceae which occurs in tropical and southern Africa. The fruit it bears is edible and the fruit and leaves of the tree have traditionally been used in African folk medicine.

Other Sorindeia plants

Sorindeia africana · Sorindeia calantha · Sorindeia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sorindeia juglandifolia 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.

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