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These plants can grow up to 9 metres (30 ft) tall. The stem often branches low down and the bark is grey brown. The leaves are compound, up to 50 centimetres (20 in) long and clustered at the ends of the branches. The flowers are white, or cream and produced on branched flowering heads at
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leaves compared to the forest mahogany, which has a darker green leaf that is slightly more glossy. The leaves of the dune soap-berry are also hard textured (when mature) and not held flat as in
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medicine for stomach complaints. These shrubs are also valuable garden plants, especially in wildlife gardens.
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butterfly species' larvae also feed on these trees, including the larvae of the black-and-orange playboy (
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283:The flowers attract hordes of insects including;
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529:KwaZulu-Natal Dune Forest
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624:Nichols, Geoff (2009).
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279:Ecological significance
234:Peter Vogelius Deinboll
201:Deinbollia oblongifolia
170:Deinbollia oblongifolia
751:Boon, Richard (2010).
682:Williams, M. (1994).
356:Andropadus importunus
322:Hypolycaena philippus
350:Egybolis vaillantina
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511:Leptotes pirithous
453:Fruit and branches
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310:Euphaedra neophron
257:Trichilia dregeana
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626:"Dune Soap-berry
491:Telchinia encedon
386:Charaxes xiphares
380:Charaxes ethalion
368:Charaxes candiope
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325:). Various
289:butterflies
240:Description
206:Sapindaceae
128:Sapindaceae
82:Angiosperms
1012:Categories
938:Plant List
545:References
477:Ripe fruit
226:Mozambique
220:, through
139:Deinbollia
118:Sapindales
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146:Species:
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584:(1993).
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362:Charaxes
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269:lathered
230:Eswatini
183:Synonyms
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95:Eudicots
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951:POWO
912:NCBI
899:IUCN
886:IPNI
860:GBIF
821:BOLD
757:ISBN
737:2011
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303:and
301:ants
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263:Uses
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