Pavetta oliveriana (Bekele-Tesemma, 2007)

← Parkinsonia aculeata

Bekele-Tesemma, Useful trees and shrubs for Ethiopia, 2007 Pavetta oliveriana (Bekele-Tesemma, 2007)

Persea americana →

Pavetta oliveriana Rubiaceae Indigenous

Common names

• Amargna: Yetota buna

Ecology

A common shrub or a small tree in riverine vegetation, open deciduous woodland, rocky outcrops with bush thickets and Olea-Podocarpus forest of the Moist and Wet Weyna Dega agroclimatic zones in nearly all regions, 1,400-2,500 m.

Uses

Firewood, mulch.

Description

A shrub or small tree to 4 m with hairy branches.

• LEAVES: With black dots and in this species the dots occur along the midrib. The leafy stipules at each node are joined and have a sharp tip with a hair. Long oval leaves are grey-green and hairy, especially below, 4–20 cm long, in opposite pairs.
• FLOWERS: Green-white, in dense terminal heads, longer than the leaves, about 7 cm across, growing out of leafy bracts at the base. Each flower about 2 cm, tubular, with 4 petals and stamens, the green style to 3 cm, hanging out, calyx hairy, the edge uneven, wavy and toothed.
• FRUIT: Round berries, dark green, ripening black, the calyx remaining at the tip, 2 seeds inside, 5–10 cm diameter.

Propagation

Seedlings. Germination takes one to two weeks.

Seed

• Treatment: No need.
• Storage: Stores well.

Management

Early stem reduction can improve stem quality.