Ochna flowers and leaves
SLF 0000Common Classification Common Names Carnival Ochna, Bird's Eye Bushes, Mickey-mouse plant Sinhala Name Ochna. Scientific Classification Family Ochnaceae Genus Ochna Scientific Name Ochna serrulata Synonym Ochna atropurpurea Ecology Category Ornamental Growth Habit Small -Tree-Shrub Duration Perennial Origin Introduced Status Cultivate Property Culinary / Edible No Use as Herb No Other Use n/a Poisoned / Toxin No
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".
