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with short, fleshy petals and bundles of numerous stamens. 

 During the flowering season the ground round the base of 



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the tree is covered with these scarlet-purple flowers that have 

 fallen from their slender stalks. 



The Kola nut tree is indigenous, to Liberia, but rarely 



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