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Each value Trefle shows for Boscia albitrunca, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced4 Source not recorded9 Not on the record5 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	(Burch.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben.	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 212 (1915)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1915	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Shepherd's tree	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	S. Trop. & S. Africa	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	320 cm	320 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 25 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 47, 873	Sourced
Biological type	empty	phanerophyte · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350	Not on the record
Flower color	empty	green · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350	Not on the record
Fruit shape	empty	berry · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350	Not on the record
Inflorescence type	empty	fascicle · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 350	Not on the record
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 6 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 818	Sourced
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation	None	None · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 7 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 47, 67, 130, 444	Sourced
Cultivation
Minimum root depth	2500 cm	2500 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 339, 432, 818	Sourced
Usda legacy
C n ratio	empty	17.7 · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 2 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 47, 412	Not on the record

Boscia albitrunca (Burch.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben., 1915 16% complete

Shepherd's tree

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