Searsia batophylla flowers

The inflorescences of the dioecious Searsia batophylla bushes are terminal, narrow panicles. Bracts are present. Each small, cream or yellow-green flower has five petals, forming a small cup that fades to brown. Male flowers have five stamens and a rudimentary pistil, female ones have a semi-globose, three-sectioned ovary.

Flowering happens from late spring to early autumn.

The small fruits are red drupes becoming brown when dry, somewhat squarish to “asymmetrically diamond-shaped” (Schmidt, et al, 2002; Coates Palgrave, 2002; Germishuizen and Fabian, 1982).