Myrsine africana

Cape myrtle
	Male plant in flower
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Primulaceae
Genus:	Myrsine
Species:	M. africana
Binomial name
	Myrsine africana; L.
Synonyms
	Synonymy Buxus dioica Forssk ; Myrica arabica Willd. ; Myrica montana Vahl ; Myrsine acuta Salisb. ; Myrsine africana var. acuminata C. Y. Wu & C. Chen ; Myrsine africana var. bifaria (Wall.) Franch. ; Myrsine africana var. glandulosa J. M. Zhang ; Myrsine africana var. retusa A. DC. ; Myrsine bifaria Wall. ; Myrsine bottensis A. DC. ; Myrsine glabra Gaertn. ; Myrsine microphylla Hayata (Ambiguous) ; Myrsine potama D. Don ; Myrsine retusa Aiton ; Myrsine rotundifolia Lam. (Ambiguous) ; Myrsine scabra Gaertn. ; Myrsine vaccinifolia Hayata ; Rhamnus myrtillus H. Lév. ; Samara potama Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don ;

Myrsine africana, also called Cape myrtle, African boxwood or thakisa, is a species of shrub in the family Primulaceae. It is indigenous to Southern and Eastern Africa, the Azores, the Arabian Peninsula, South Asia and East Asia.^[1]