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Pappea capensis| Category | Tree | | Botanical name | Pappea capensis | | Common names | Jacket Plum, Wild Plum, Indaba tree, Bushveld cherry, Doppruim | | Plant Shape | Dense spreading crown | | Indigenous / Exotic | Indigenous | | Evergreen/Deciduous | Semi-evergreen | | Dimensions | 2-8m | | Frost Tolerance | Frost hardy | | Drought Resistance | Drought hardy | | Hardiness - Other | Wind tolerant | | Growth Rate | Slow to medium | | Characteristics | Flowers: Yellowish (Spring - Autumn), sweetly scented
Fruit: Red (Summer-Winter)
Foliage: pinky-bronze (Spring) becoming dark green turning yellow (Autumn) | | Wildlife attraction | It is an excellent tree for attracting birds as it is popular with nesting birds (provides a concealed and sheltered nesting sites), as well as fruit eating and insect eating birds. The fruit offers a tasty treat for humans too. It is browsed by game such as elephant, giraffe, kudu, nyala, bushbuck, and grey duiker as well as domestic stock animals. It is a larval food plant to the caterpillars of butterflies such as the Common hairtail butterfly (Anthene definita definita), Brown playboy butterfly (Virachola antalus)
Pearlspotted charaxes (Charaxes jahlusa, Gold-banded forester (Euphaedra neophron). | | Use in the garden | Used as a specimen tree or as a focal point for its dappled bark and shape. A good choice for a street tree, shade tree, parking areas, in a mixed screen, as a windbreaker or as a part of a natural bushclump in a wildlife-friendly garden. It is well suited to large landscapes such as parks and golf courses or the small to medium garden. It does not have an aggressive root system. | | Planting Ideas | | | Additional Notes | |
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