Eugenia malangensis

Botanical Description

Eugenia malangensis is an evergreen plant with somewhat woody stems. The plant has an extensive, rhizomatous root system, producing clumps of unbranched stems 15 - 50cm tall - these stems are usually burnt down each year in bush fires, but sometimes survive and become sparsely branched in their second year[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ]. The root system is usually undamaged by the fire[ 308 Title Flora Zambesiaca Publication Author Website http://apps.kew.org/efloras/fz/intro.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An excellent online flora of plants from the Zambezi River basin. It lists a number of the plant uses as well as the habitats and botanical descriptions of the plants. ]. The edible fruit is gathered from the wild for local consumption.