Searsia pterota flowers

The small, pale yellow to creamy flowers of Searsia pterota grow in compact heads, the sexes on different trees. Male heads grow from branchlet tips, female ones from leaf axils. The male heads are up to 3,5 cm long, the female ones shorter. Bloomtime is from before midsummer until autumn.

The fruits (on the female bushes) are thinly fleshy drupes, ovoid to ellipsoid but usually asymmetrical, about 5 mm wide. They become reddish brown and about black when dry (Euston-Brown and Kruger, 2023; Venter, 2012; Coates Palgrave, 2002; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist).