Vangueria apiculata

Vangueri aapiculata is a deciduous shrub or small tree, often with multiple-stems, growing 1.8 - 12 meters tall.
BARK: smooth grey brown.
LEAVES : thin and papery (no hairs), more or less oval, the tip pointed, about 13 cm long and 6 cm wide with 7-11main veins each side of the midrib, vein network clear below, stalk only 0.7 cm, stipules at nodes are quite thin, 0.8 cm long.
FLOWERS : beside leaves, green-white-yellow in much-branchedbunches tiny flowers tubular.
FRUIT : green becoming yellow brown, rounded 17-22 mm long, edible.

Fruit is eaten as a snack.
Medicine: leaves and roots.
The wood is used for poles, pegs and tool handles.
The wood is used for fuel and to make charcoal.

A widespread species in evergreen forest, near water or in bushland, often on termite mounds and rocky outcrops, from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe. In Uganda it is widely distributed in secondary scrub, in open forest and in cultivated areas. In Kampala, this tree species can be found along Lugogo bypass, Nakasero hill road ,within Makerere II zone C among other places.

Coppicing, pollarding.