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Accession Data:

Ochna serrulata (Hochst.) Walp.

  • Common Name: Mickey Mouse Plant
  • Family: Ochnaceae DC

  • Country of Origin: subtropical (east) coast of southern Africa
  • Habitat: understory in forest, though it grows in many different habitats

  • Description: [syn. Ochna multiflora Hort., not D.C.; O. japonica Hort.; O. serratifolia Hort.]

    Shrub to 5 feet, branches roughened by many lenticels; leaves narrowly elliptic, to 2.4 inches long, sharply serrulate; flowers 1 to several, on short spurs, sepals broadly elliptic, yellow-green, becoming enlarged and oblong in age, strongly reflexed and bright red in fruit, petals ovate), and broadly tapering to each end; wider than oblanceolate.">obovate; drupes ellipsoid, becoming black when mature, on enlarged red receptacle. Perhaps not specifically distinct from Ochna atropurpurea.

  • USDA Zone: 9b-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198502400
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1116 - AFR:Ground Bed 2 SE
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 02-26-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid I
  • Order: Malpighiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Ochnaceae
  • SubFamily: Ochnoideae
  • Tribe: Ochneae
  • SubTribe: Ochninae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References (internal):

  • Bird Pollination (ornithophily)
  • Examples of Plant Seed Dispersal Mechanisms & Strategies
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Lesotho / KwaZulu-Natal / Swaziland / Northern Provinces

References (external):

  1. Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
  2. Ochna serrulata at PlantzAfrica. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, August 08, 2016.
  4. Ochna serrulata at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Monday, August 08, 2016.
  5. Ochna serrulata at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Monday, July 24, 2017.

data regenerated on Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:45:15 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Ochna serrulata

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Current Accessions in the Ochnaceae

Subfamily Ochnoideae
Tribe Ochneae

  • Ochninae: Ochna serrulata
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