Wild Orange

This plants starts as a tangled prickly scrambling shrub, when it then develops one or more main stems, growing into a small tree up to 6 m high, with rough dark trunk and a dense canopy, usually occurring in isolation. The lower foliage is usually extensively grazed by animals. The leaves are oval shaped and have a grey-green appearance. The pale yellow flowers grows on a stem about 3-4 cm long, have cupped hairy sepals, fringed petals 3 cm long and many stamens about 4 cm long. The fruit grows into a globular shape about 30-75 mm in diameter at the end of the curved stalk. The fruit is yellow when ripen, with some species being black when ripe.