Pavetta lanceolata

Pavetta lanceolata, commonly the weeping brides bush, is an evergreen shrub or small tree that reaches about 4 m in height (SA Tree List No. 718.1).

The flowers are clustered at branch ends. The flower is small and white, the corolla tube about 6 mm long, the four narrow petals spreading. The style is exserted far.

The fruit is a small, spherical berry about 7 mm in diameter growing in clusters from autumn to winter.

P. lanceolata grows in the eastern parts of South Africa, from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal to the Mpumalanga and Limpopo Lowveld, as well as in some neighbouring countries.

The habitat is bushveld, forest margins, rocky slopes and riverbanks in fairly high rainfall areas. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (Coates Palgrave, 2002; http://redlist.sanbi.org).