Family

The Checklist of Coastal Forests lists 20 Genera, 25 Species

I am growing

• Deinbollia borbonica
• Lecaniodiscus fraxinifolius
• Majidea zanguebarica

Propogation
Grow from seed.
Seed must be cleaned and sown as soon as possible—within a day is best. The seed takes about 2–3 weeks to germinate with bottom heat or a warmer ambient temperature.

Sapindaceae butterflies /moths
Growing Rare Plants – Geoiff Nichols

Sapindaceae are host plants to:

• Charaxes varanes- Pearl Charaxes
• Euphaedra neophron – Gold-banded Forester
• Euxanthe wakefieldi – Forest Queen
• Deudorix dariaves – Back-and-orange Playboy
• Egybolis vaillantina – Peach Moth

Family: Ximeniaceae
ENG: Sour Plum
KSW: mpingi
GIR: Mtundukula

Self-seeded tree up to 6 m tall with spiney branches.

The flowers are small, sweet-scented and creamygreen edible oval fruits 25 mm long deep red when ripe. The fruit are eaten by birds and monkeys. The single large seed inside contains Ximenia oil which has various uses. The leaves and roots are used for traditional medicine.

Larval foodplant to:

• Axiocerses harpex – Common Scarlet
• Axiocerses punicea – Rainforest Scarlet
• Iolaus pallene – Saffron Saphire

Family: Rhamnaceae

Tree.

Rated as Endangered (EN) according to IUCN Red List criteria.

Available from Kivukoni Indigenous Tree Nursery