Premna chrysoclada
(Boj.) Gurke
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are edible.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in the lowlands.
Africa, East Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Tanzania,
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 shrub or small tree. It can grow 6 m tall. The branches have a velvety or rusty coating. The leaves are opposite and are vary in shape. They are 2-10 cm long by 1-6 cm wide. They are broadly wedge shaped or rounded at the base. The fruit are purplish-black and 5-6 mm long.
Notes
Also put in the family Verbenaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Mvuma
Premna zanzibarensis VatkeVitex chrysoclada Bojer
References (6)
- East African Herbarium records, 1981,
- Grivetti, L. E., 1980, Agricultural development: present and potential role of edible wild plants. Part 2: Sub-Saharan Africa, Report to the Department of State Agency for International Development. p 47
- Mutie, F. M., et al, 2023, Important Medicinal and Food Taxa (Orders and Families) in Kenya, Based on Three Quantitative Approaches. Plants 2023, 12, 1145
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 198
- Reis, S. V. and Lipp, F. L., 1982, New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden herbarium. Harvard. p 253
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
