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Mickey Mouse or Carnival Ochna

Ochna fruits - Carnival Ochna
  • Ochna flowers and leaves

  • Common Classification
    Common NamesCarnival Ochna, Bird's Eye Bushes, Mickey-mouse plant
    Sinhala NameOchna.
    Scientific Classification
    FamilyOchnaceae
    GenusOchna
    Scientific NameOchna serrulata
    SynonymOchna atropurpurea
    Ecology
    CategoryOrnamental
    Growth HabitSmall -Tree-Shrub
    DurationPerennial
    OriginIntroduced
    StatusCultivate
    Property
    Culinary / EdibleNo
    Use as HerbNo
    Other Usen/a
    Poisoned / Toxin No
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Mickey-mouse or Bird's Eye Bushes plant is a small woody tree native to South Africa and Oceania continent's countries. It is a introduced, beautiful ornamental plant can be found on home gardens in the country. The plant grows up about 4 or 5 meters in height and dense blooms beautiful yellow flowers. Fruits are green with red sepals and become to black when ripening is also interest. In Sinhalese sometime called as "Bo Kera" but extremly it is not the Bo Kera plant. The plant is closely related to Ochna obtusata which called in Sinhalese as "Mal Keera".

Fruit - ochna





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