''Tabernaemontana stapfiana'' (commonly known as soccerball fruit
) is a medium-sized tree in the family
Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the ...
. Its flowers feature white with yellow-throated
corolla lobes. The fruit is fleshy grey-green, in pairs, each up to in diameter and weighing up to several kilograms. Its habitat is montane evergreen forests from altitude.
[ The plant is native to an area of Africa from Uganda south to Mozambique.]
References
stapfiana
Plants described in 1894
Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
Flora of East Tropical Africa
Flora of South Tropical Africa
Afromontane flora
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