FYNBOS - BLINKTAAIBOS / VARNISHED KHUNI-RHUS - 20 SEEDS - rare

The varnished khuni-rhus or in Afrikaans blinktaaibos (shiny sticky bush) is usually a shrub, rarely a small tree. As these names suggest, the leaves are shiny. The height attained by Searsia lucida is rarely beyond 2 m.

The fruits are also shiny. They are dark brown, hairless drupes, spheroid in shape. Birds commonly eat the small fruit that become about 4 mm in diameter. 

The species distribution is along the south and east coasts of the Western & Eastern Cape