Common names: white raisin Eng. It is a frost-resistant, hardy shrub or small tree that is adaptable to all soils, from clay to sand, and does not require much water. Grewia bicolor is a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree, up to 9 m high. Its bark is smooth, grey, becoming dark grey and deeply fissured and peeling away in straps with age. The young branchlets are velvety grey or brown. The leaves are alternate, simple and elliptic to slightly ovate, x mm, with a broadly tapering to rounded apex.
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Common names: white raisin Eng. It is a frost-resistant, hardy shrub or small tree that is adaptable to all soils, from clay to sand, and does not require much water. Grewia bicolor is a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree, up to 9 m high.
Its bark is smooth, grey, becoming dark grey and deeply fissured and peeling away in straps with age. The young branchlets are velvety grey or brown. The leaves are alternate, simple and elliptic to slightly ovate, x mm, with a broadly tapering to rounded apex. They are 3-veined from the asymmetrically lobed base, rounded to slightly cordate, held horizontally or drooping, glossy green above, almost white and silvery hairy below, while the margins are entire to slightly serrated.
The petiole leaf stalk is about mm long. The flowers are small, bright yellow, borne in axillary clusters at the end of branches. They are often borne in profusion, with sepals up to 12 mm long and petals shorter. The flowering time is October-March. The fruits are round and fleshy drupes fruits such as plums , reddish brown or orange and black when ripe, entire or deeply 2-lobed, up to 6 mm in diameter.
According to Raimondo et al. Grewia bicolor naturally occurs in dry deciduous woodland and bushveld. It is frequently associated with mopane at low altitudes, on sandy flats and rocky mountain slopes. It is also occasionally found at medium altitudes in higher-rainfall areas.
The genus Grewia was named after Nehemiah Grew , an English physician. The specific name bicolor refers to bicoloured leaves. The white raisin is often associated with termite mounds and riverine fringes, especially at medium altitudes in higher-rainfall areas. The leaves are browsed by game and livestock. The fruit is edible, sweetish but astringent. The roots are also used to treat chest complaints. Grewia bicolor is a most variable species, probably because it freely hybridises with G.
These trees grow best in temperate climates with summer rainfall. They do not require much water and are frost-hardy. Grewia bicolor forms a distinct shrub layer below the tree canopy. Mothogoane M. National Herbarium, Pretoria September Login to add your Comment Not registered yet?
Click here to register. Grewia bicolor. Grewia bicolor Juss. Family: Malvaceae Common names: white raisin Eng. SA Tree No: View other plants in this family QR code link View other plants in this genus. Conservation Status Status According to Raimondo et al. References Boon, R. Pooley's Trees of eastern South Africa: A complete guide , edn 2. Coates Palgrave, M. Keith Coates Palgrave Trees of southern Africa , edn 3. Struik, Cape Town. Raimondo, D.
Red List of South African plants Strelitzia Schmidt, E. Trees and shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park. Jacana, Johannesburg. Van Wyk, A. Dictionary of names for southern African trees: Scientific names of indigenous trees, shrubs and climbers with common names from 30 languages , edn 1. Briza Publications, Pretoria. Credits Mothogoane M. Drought resistant. Edible plant. Medical plant. Useful plant. Horticultural zones.
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The wood of Grewia bicolor is used in house construction poles, beams and made into a range of articles including tool handles, herding staffs and walking sticks, bows, arrows, spear shafts, knobkerries and clubs, pegs, rakes and saddle frames. In Burkina Faso sticks are woven into baskets. The wood is also used for firesticks, as fuel wood and made into charcoal. The sweet, mealy fruit pulp is eaten fresh, or dried as candy.
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Grewia bicolor A. The bark is dark grey, deeply fissured and scaly in older trees. The leaves are alternate, elliptic to lanceolate, 1. The flowers are pentamerous, yellow, 1.