Growth and fruit production of Sclerocarya birrea in the South African lowveld

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 175-180

  Shackleton, Charlie ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Commercialisation; Fruit yield; Indigenous fruit tree; Marula; Tree size

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; FRUIT PRODUCTION; TREE; YIELD;

SOUTH AFRICA;

SCLEROCARYA;

EID: 0036032535     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020579213024     Document Type: Article

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