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The Common Cabbage Tree is an evergreen tree that grows up to 15 metres tall. The Common Cabbage tree has long grey stems with smooth bark.
Flowers from April to May and fruits from June to September.

Habitat: Distributed from the Sudan in the North to the Western Cape in the south.

Uses: Leaves are browsed by Kudu and domestic stock. Baboons eat the young shoots. Rip fruit is eaten by Bulbuls, Louries, Starlings, Barbets and Mousebirds.

Medicinal Uses: Decoctions are used to treat madness, convulsions, amenorrhoea, heart pains, venereal disease and pains of the uterus.


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