page_title: Maurocenia
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Maurocenia / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Maurocenia frangularia tree. Juvenile in South African nursery.
context_page_description: Maurocenia frangularia is a small, rounded tree of about 4 metres, that is endemic to the Western Cape, South Africa.
context_section_description: It has small, fragrant, dioecious flowers, cherry-sized edible purple berries and hard yellow wood that is used to make musical instruments.
  New growth is bright scarlet. Mature leaves are a very dark green and leathery in texture. 
  The leaves are distinctively round. They grow in opposite pairs up the stem with a noticeable symmetry, each new pair perpendicular to the previous.
caption: The distinctively bright scarlet new growth.
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