Ancylanthos rubiginosus
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are eaten raw or used to make wine.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant. In Namibia it grows in deep red sand. It grows between 900-1,400 m altitude. It can grow in arid places.
Africa, Angola, Botswana, Central Africa, East Africa, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
How to Identify
A shrub. It grows 1 m tall. The stems are erect. There can be one or several stems. They grow from a woody rootstock. Young plants have yellow hairs. The leaves are opposite or in rings. They are 3-15 cm long by 2-7 cm wide. The flowers are large. They are produced at nodes that have no leaves. The fruit is about 4 cm long. It is dark purple and turns light brown when ripe.
Notes
There is only one Ancylanthos species.
Names & Synonyms
Isya-matanda, Iyamba, Musyola, Omumbu, Yamba
References (11)
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- Global Plants JSTOR
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- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 167 (As Ancylanthos bainesii)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1999). Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) database. Published on the Internet; http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ceb/sepasal/internet [Accessed 10th June 2011]
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 95
- 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
