African Sandalwood

Osyris lanceolata

Inclusion rationale

Why did we include this species on our website? Because it was mentioned in the following source(s):

• PlantZAfrica

Features data

The following sources have provided data on features for this species.

Source document	Features
PlantZAfrica Dec. 17, 2025, 10:47 a.m.
PlantZAfrica Jan. 1, 2026, 8:35 a.m.	Supports birds Supports butterflies Drought-resistant Useful Medicinal Edible Fragrant Shrub Tree Soil: clay Soil: loam Soil: sandy Color data Flowering data

Photo credits

You can see the credits underneath each photo of the species pages as well. Credits, in order of appearance:

• (c) Grant Egen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Grant Egen source
• (c) Joseph Heymans, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Joseph Heymans source
• (c) Lies Van Rompaey, some rights reserved (CC BY) source
• (c) mazus_jan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by mazus_jan source
• (c) mjspp, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) source
• (c) Joseph Heymans, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Joseph Heymans source
• (c) chrisjgvn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) source
• (c) Luis Silva, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Luis Silva source