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Vepris lanceolata
Also called Bois Patte Poule Piquant
Vepris lanceolata (umZane or white ironwood) is a large, evergreen tree native to southern and eastern Africa. It ranges from southeastern Kenya through Tanzania and Mozambique to South Africa, where it grows in coastal evergreen thicket or on loose sandy soil near beaches from sea level to 30 meters elevation.
Teclea carpopunctifera · Vepris allenii · Vepris arushensis · Vepris bali · Vepris bilocularis · Vepris borenensis · Wild Mandarin · Vepris glaberrima · Vepris glandulosa · Vepris heterophylla · Vepris lecomteana · Vepris mandangoana
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vepris lanceolata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
