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| evergreen tree native to the montane regions of Sub-Saharan Africa
| | and the Islands of Madagascar, Sao Tome, Fernando Po and Grand
| | Comore at about 900-3400 m. of altitude. The mature tree is 10-25
| | m. high, open-branched and often pendulous in forest, shorter and
| | with a round crown of 10-20 m. diameter in grassland. It requires a
| | moist climate, 900-3400 mm annual rainfall, and is moderately frost-
| | tolerant.[
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