Wild-Medlar

Vangueria infausta

Inclusion rationale

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

• The vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Strelitzia 19 (2006)
• 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, 8:34 a.m.	Supports birds Supports butterflies Drought-resistant Easy to grow Medicinal Edible Attractive Shade Sun Semi-shade Tree 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) Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Suvarna Parbhoo Mohan source
• (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) source
• (c) Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) source
• (c) Reuben Heydenrych, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Reuben Heydenrych source
• (c) urbana, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) source
• (c) Günter Baumann, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) source
• (c) Sandra Falanga, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Sandra Falanga source
• (c) Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Tony Rebelo source
• (c) Craig Peter, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Craig Peter source
• (c) Kyle Campbell, some rights reserved (CC BY-ND), uploaded by Kyle Campbell source