Searsia glauca flowering and fruiting

The foliage of this Searsia glauca bush is brightly yellow-green. It has nothing yet of the often found, resinous leaf coating that dries and turns blue-grey in colour.

The shapes of leaflet tips vary much, from rounded or flat-tipped to slightly concave or notched. There is almost always a short hair-like protuberance, a mucro at the leaflet tip, typical of several taaibos species leaflets. The leaflet base tapers without a petiolule being present. Below the point where the three leaflets join, however, a petiole of 1 cm to 2 cm in length is found for the entire leaf.

Flowering usually begins in winter, lasting to early September. This plant seen on Hoys Koppie in Hermanus in the middle of May was not only already flowering but some tiny, spherical, red fruits have formed among the cream-coloured flowers and yellow buds (Coates Palgrave, 2002).