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''Olinia emarginata'', the mountain hard pear or berghardepeer in Afrikaans
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language, is a tree species in the genus ''Olinia
''Olinia'' is a genus of small trees and shrubs with 10 species in the family Penaeaceae. The species of ''Olinia'' are native to Africa, ranging from west Africa to South Africa. It was previously regarded as the sole genus in the family Oliniac ...
'' native to South Africa.
Prunasin
(''R'')-prunasin is a cyanogenic glycoside related to amygdalin. Chemically, it is the glucoside of (''R'')-mandelonitrile.
Natural occurrences
Prunasin is found in species in the genus ''Prunus'' such as ''Prunus japonica'' or '' P. maximowicz ...
, a cyanogenic glucoside, can be found in the leaves of ''O. emarginata''.Occurrence of the cyanogenic glucoside prunasin and II corresponding mandelic acid amide glucoside in ''Olinia'' species (Oliniaceae). Adolf Nahrstedt and Jürgen Rockenbach, September 1993, Phytochemistry, Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 433–436,
See also
*List of Southern African indigenous trees and woody lianes
This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The notion of 'indigenous' is of ...
* Forests of KwaZulu-Natal
Areas of forest which grow in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa mostly on south facing slopes in higher rainfall areas, and along the humid coastal areas. Different types of forest can be identified by their species composition which depends mostly o ...
References
External links
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Penaeaceae Flora of South Africa {{Myrtales-stub