Back Maroela Afrikaans قاسية النواة البيرية Arabic Sclerocarya birrea CEB Maruela Danish Marula-Baum German Marula arbo Esperanto Sclerocarya birrea Spanish Maruula-elevandiõunapuu Estonian مارولا Persian Eedi FF
| Marula | |
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| S. birrea with and without foliage | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Anacardiaceae |
| Genus: | Sclerocarya |
| Species: | S. birrea
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| Binomial name | |
| Sclerocarya birrea (A. Rich.) Hochst.
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| Synonyms | |
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Poupartia birrea (A. Rich.) Aubrév | |
Sclerocarya birrea (Ancient Greek: σκληρός ⟨sklērós⟩, meaning "hard", and κάρυον ⟨káryon⟩, "nut", in reference to the stone inside the fleshy fruit), commonly known as the marula, is a medium-sized deciduous fruit-bearing tree, indigenous to the miombo woodlands of Southern Africa, the Sudano-Sahelian range of West Africa, the savanna woodlands of East Africa and Madagascar.
- ^ "Entry for Sclerocarya birrea". JSTOR Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved 2014-01-12.