One of approximately 300 tropical trees, of the genus sterculia, spread all around the world from Australia to Africa classified into a category called "Java Olives". It is a large, fast growing, deciduous nut bearing species.

Java Olive is a nut tree of Old and New World tropical zone. Leaves are compound with 5-7 leaflets, carried [...]

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Marula, Sclerocarya birrea, is a medium-sized, 10-15 m, dioecious, deciduous fruit tree, a member of the Anacardiaceae family, which grows wild in the hillsides and forests of Northern South Africa and parts of Eastern Botswana.

Leaves are alternate, with 7-13 pairs of opposite leaflets plus the terminal leaflet. Color is dark green above and paler bluish-green [...]

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The Quince is a deciduous, broad-leafed fruit tree, member of the Rosaceae family, the genus cydonia. Botanically, the plant used to be addressed Pyrus cydonia, but contemporary plant scientists now position it in the genus Pyrus and specify it to a separate genus, to which the early specific name Cydonia has been given.

It has [...]

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