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Kiggelaria
Sign in to saveKiggelaria africana (also known as the wild peach or umKokoko) is a large, robust, low-branching African tree, and is currently the only accepted species in the genus Kiggelaria.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalpighiales
- FamilyAchariaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 17
- With media
- 21
- Family
- Achariaceae
- Collections
- SBBG, MO, MNHN, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Tanzania, South Africa, Tanganjika
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Appearance
- Distribution
- Growing ''Kiggelaria africana''
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Kiggelaria africana (also known as the wild peach or umKokoko) is a large, robust, low-branching African tree, and is currently the only accepted species in the genus Kiggelaria.
Despite its common name, Kiggelaria africana is not related to the more familiar fruit-producing peach tree (Prunus persica) although the leaves do look similar, if only very superficially. Unlike peach leaves, they are fairly thick and stiff, with a thin coating of fur on the undersides.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kiggelaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.