Sideroxylon lanuginosum

Shrubs or trees, to 15 m. Stems not armed or armed, villous, glabrescent. Leaves deciduous; petiole 2–14 mm, villous or sparsely hairy to glabrate; blade (dull to lustrous adaxially), oblong or oblanceolate to spatulate, 15–97 × 7–40 mm, base acute to attenuate, margins plane, apex rounded to obtuse, rarely acute, abaxial surface usually villous, rarely glabrate, venation visible, midrib villous (hairs white or gray to tawny, entangled, wavy), adaxial surface glabrate (hairs scattered along midribs), midrib flat, marginal vein absent. Inflorescences 7–17-flowered. Pedicels 2–7 mm, villous, rarely glabrous. Flowers: calyx 1.9–3.2 mm diam.; sepals (4–)5, 1.8–2.8 × 1.4–1.9 mm, lanate-villous; petals (4–)5(–6), white, median segment oblong to ovate, 1.2–1.8 mm, lateral segments lanceolate or falcate, 0.8–1.8 mm; stamens 5(–6), 2.5–2.8 mm; staminodes lanceolate, 1.3–2.5 mm, entire or erose; anthers sagittate, 0.8–1.2 mm; pistil 5(–8)-carpellate; ovary 5(–8)-locular, 1–1.2 mm, strigose; style 1.1–1.5 mm. Berries purplish black, broadly ellipsoid to obovoid, 7–12 mm, glabrate. Seeds 6–11 mm.

3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun

Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.

Sideroxylon Lanuginosum

Sideroxylon lanuginosum

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