Diospyros whyteana flowers

The mostly pendulous Diospyros whyteana flowers are pale yellow, cream or white and sweetly fragrant. Male and female flowers grow on different trees, in short axillary sprays, up to three per axil. The sprays later develop into leafy branchlets. The slender, hairy pedicels are up to 2 cm long.

The cup-shaped green calyces may also be hairy, the flower parts in fives. The short, broad petals recurve strongly. The flowers are 5 mm to 10 mm long.

Bloomtime is late winter and spring (Venter, 2012; Coates Palgrave, 2002; Schmidt, et al, 2002; Pooley, 1993; iNaturalist).