Much-branched spreading shrub or small tree ; up to 8 m tall , with a single main trunk or several from base and pale grey to white peeling bark . Stems and young shoots striate , with brownish hairs , becoming glabrous with age . Leaves alternate or crowded in short shoots , 2–8 . 5 × 1–9 cm , broadly ovate to obovate to almost rounded , base rounded to cuneate , apex emarginated to rounded , margins entire to crenate to dentate , scabrid with bulbous-based hairs , venation reticulate , conspicuous , lateral veins reaching the margins ; petiole 5–50 mm . Inflorescences clustered in dense terminal cymes , densely tomentose ; pedicels ± 1 mm , articulate at the apex . Flowers fragrant , greenish-white to pale yellow , unisexual or bisexual ; calyx in both types of flowers 6–8 mm , cylindrical to funnel-shaped , often slightly sulcate , tomentose with simple and branched hairs , 3–5-lobed or 2-lipped ; fruiting calyx shallow , forming a cup up to 1 cm wide ; corolla greenish-white to pale yellow ,
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Cordia ovalis DC.
Gerascanthus monoicus (Roxb.) Borhidi
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Sandpaper Saucer-berry
Snot Berry
In Omani studies: Miller & Morris (1988) wrote that: "The tree produces small, very sweet and extremely sticky, orange fruit in great abundance. It is said jokingly of a tree that is in fruit - J: haberoken diy - meaning 'it is watching me!', in reference to the small orange fruit visible 'peeping' through the dark green foliage like the eyes of some watching animal. In wet weather, the whole tree develops rather an unpleasant smell, and goats feeding on the foliage are even said to develop characteristically bad breath! The wood is good and strong, but this species of Cordia rarely grows to the size of C. perrottettii. As firewood it is considered to be inferior, and anyway, like other fruit-producing trees, its wood was not normally squandered as fuel. The wood of the smaller branches does however, make good 'pop-guns' [J: soxes], which require a tree whose bark
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*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://antropocene.it *https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw *Miller, A., Morris, M. (1988). Plants of Dhofar, the Southern Region of Oman: Traditional, Economic, and Medicinal Uses. Published by Office of the Adviser for Conservation of the Environment, Diwan of Royal Court, Sultanate of Oman; ISBN 10: 0715708082 ISSN 13: 9780715708088. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
