Maytenus cordata. A. Flowering branchlet; note cordate leaf bases and flowers with relatively short pedicels. B. Branchlet with mature, dehisced fruit, showing seed with orange-yellow aril; insert shows a dehisced capsule with seeds completely enclosed by an orange aril. Upper right hand leaf blade broken in half and gently pulled apart to show the presence of silvery elastic threads of gutta-percha. C. Inflorescences with flowers, borne on relatively short, erect or spreading pedicels. Photographs by Richard Boon.