Duiker Berry

maprouneifolia: with leaves like a Maprounea, another genus in Euphorbiaceae

Small tree. Leaves alternate, broadly ovate to rounded; margin entire. The leaves display bright autumn colours of yellow or red. Flowers in few-flowered axillary clusters, small and inconspicuous, pale green, unisexual on separate trees. Fruit ovoid to subspherical, slightly ribbed as if about to split into six segments, yellow when ripe.

Common

From DRC, Burundi and Tanzania to Namibia and northern South Africa.