Greyia sutherlandii

 

학명 : Greyia sutherlandii Hook. & Harv.

분류 : Francoaceae

 

 

사진 : 2023.04.06푸른수목원

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

아래 : 2023.05.03 푸른수목원

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wikipedia

 

Greyia sutherlandii, also known as Natal bottlebrush, is a species of plant in the Francoaceae family. It is endemic to South Africa

 

 

 

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Common names: glossy bottlebrush, mountain bottlebrush, Natal bottlebrush, wild bottlebrush, beacon tree (Eng.); blinkblaarbaakhout, Natalse baakhout (Afr.); isidwadwa, indalu, indulo, umbande (Zulu); umbere-bere, usinga-lwamaxhegokazi, indalu (Xhosa), inhlazane, umwatsawatsa (Swazi)

 

Greyia sutherlandii is a large shrub or small tree, 3 to 7 m high. It is deciduous and in late autumn the leaves turn shades of bright red. Young trees are compact and old trees do not grow tall but they spread and have rough, dark trunks. The leaves are simple, alternate, rather leathery, slightly lobed and coarsely toothed. The leaf surface is hairless and minutely glandular. The leaf veins radiate from the base. The leaf stalk is long and straight.

 

The beautiful flowers are red, with oblong petals and long protruding stamens. The showy flowers open in closely packed racemes at the tips of the branches and bloom towards the end of winter, in spring and into early summer. The fruit is a pale brown, cone-shaped, cylindrical capsule, of 20 mm long. It splits in 4 or 5 parts when ripe to release seeds from October to December. The wood is pale pink and generally light and soft.

 

 

Conservation Status

Greyia sutherlandii is not threatened, it is assessed as Least Concern (LC) in the Red List of South African Plants.

 

Distribution and habitat

Greyia sutherlandii grows on the slopes and rocky ridges of the Drakensberg up to an altitude of about 1 800 m, in the Eastern Cape, the eastern Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland and eastern Gauteng.

 

Derivation of name and historical aspects

The genus was named in honour of Sir George Grey (1812-1898) who was a Governor of the Cape Colony. He was a great patron of botany. The specific epithet honours Peter Cormack Sutherland (1822-1900), a medical doctor from Aberdeen, Scotland, who was the Surveyor-General of Natal in 1855; he made many plant collections during his term of office. He was also the first person to send specimens of the tree to England. The common name bottlebrush suggests the resemblance of the flowers to those of the common cultivated bottlebrush of the Australian genus Callistemon.

 

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