Diospyros verrucosa Hiern

verrucosa: warty

Evergreen shrub or small tree. Bark grey to blackish rough and fissured. Leaves spirally arranged, ovate, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, slightly leathery, green and hairless above, densely covered in pale velvet below; margin entire. Flowers in axillary few-flowered clusters or solitary, unisexual, whitish. Fruit up to c. 4.5 × 4 cm broadly ellipsoid to almost round with a warty surface, densely covered in rusty hairs when young, orange to black and almost hairless when ripe; persistent calyx small and inconspicuous.

Local. In Southern Africa only known North of the Beira-Dondo area. More common further north.

Mozambique and Tanzania

Diospyros verrucosa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thị. Loài này được Hiern mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1873.