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Accession Data:

Dais cotinifolia L.

  • Common Name: Pompon tree, Pincushion tree, Posybush, Torch Tree
  • Family: Thymelaeaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Madagascar to southern Africa - Eastern Cape
  • Habitat: margins of forests, wooded hill slopes and in stony kloofs

  • Description: Native to southern Africa, this bushy, rounded shrub or small tree grows to about 10 ft (3 m). It has reddish bark and oval, blue-green leaves up to 3 in (7 cm) in length. In late spring it bears fragrant flower clusters of tubular pink blooms.
  • Uses: Bark yields a strong fiber used by natives of Natal as thread.
  • Culture: It is evergreen in warm areas and deciduous in cool climates.
  • USDA Zone: 11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199300375
  • Source: Chiltern
  • Recorded Vouchers:
    1. Voucher 128473 at George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN). Specimen collected 29 April 2004. Herbarium Image
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1993
  • Bench: 1106 - AFR:West Bench NN
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 03-18-2023

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid II
  • Order: Malvales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Thymelaeaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
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Flowering Data:

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

  • Fiber Plants
  • Plants with Vouchers deposited in CONN
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Tanzania / Malawi / Mozambique / Zimbabwe / Cape Provinces / Lesotho / Swaziland / Madagascar

References (external):

  1. Dais cotinifolia at PlantzAfrica. Accessed 6 June 2015.
  2. Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 6 June 2015.
  4. Brink, M., 2009. Dais cotinifolia L. In: Brink, M. & Achigan-Dako, E.G. (Editors). Prota 16: Fibres/Plantes à fibres. [CD-Rom]. PROTA, Wageningen, Netherlands. Accessed 15 June 2015.

data regenerated on Sat, 18 Mar 2023 21:42:05 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Thymelaeaceae

  • Dais cotinifolia
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