Raphionacme galpinii
Schltr.
Galpin's raphio
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit, Roots, Leaves
The fruit are eaten as a snack. The roots and leaves are also edible portions.
Known Hazards
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant.
Africa, Eswatini, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A herb that keeps growing from year to year. It spreads 60 cm across. The stems can be a 1 m tall. It has a large tuberous root 50 cm across. The leaves vary from narrow to broad. They are 2.5-16 cm long by 5-30 mm wide. They are more pale green underneath and can be hairy.
Medicinal Uses
No medicinal uses documented in available data.
Notes
Also put in the family Asclepiadaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Lubhuku, Madema, Tshugoa
Raphionacme elata N. E. Br.Raphionacme macrorrhiza Schltr.
References (7)
- Fox, F. W. & Young, M. E. N., 1982, Food from the Veld. Delta Books. p 292 (As Raphionacme elata)
- Long, C., 2005, Swaziland's Flora - siSwati names and Uses http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora/
- Ogle & Grivetti, 1985, (Also as Raphionacme elata)
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 66 (Also as Raphionacme elata)
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 27
- Shackleton, S. E., et al, 1998, Use and Trading of Wild Edible Herbs in the Central Lowveld Savanna Region, South Africa. Economic Botany, Vol. 52, No. 3, pp. 251-259
- Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179
