Croton sylvaticus is a tree in the family Euphorbiaceae.[2][3] It is commonly known as the forest fever-berry. These trees are distributed in forests from the east coast of South Africa to Tropical Africa. It grows 7–13 metres (23–43 ft) in height, occasionally up to 30 metres (100 ft), in moist forests, thickets and forest edges at altitudes of 350–1,800 metres (1,100–5,900 ft).
Flowers and fruit
Greenish cream flowers, up to 3 millimetres (15⁄128 in) long (all male or female or mixed flowers), in racemes, 10–30 centimetres (4–12 in) long. Fruit, light green when young, turning to orange or red, trilobed, oval in shape, hairy.
Uses
Used as a general timber, for poles, posts and as a fuel.
Sap from leaves is used for healing cuts, bark is used in the treatment of malaria, a decoction from the bark of the roots is taken orally as a remedy for tuberculosis, an infusion of the leaves acts as a purgative.[7]
