Ipomoea papilio
Hallier f.
Morning glory
ConvolvulaceaeLeaves
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves
Young leaves are cooked as a spinach.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical and subtropical plant. It grows in woodland and grassland. It grows from 900-1,400 m altitude.
Africa, Botswana, East Africa, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
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. The stems are 3 m long. They are hairy when young. The leaf blade is heart shaped or kidney shaped and 2-7 cm long by 2-7 cm wide. It tapers to the tip. There can be lobes at the base. The flowers are in groups of 1-5. They are funnel shaped and have slight spreading wings. They are light red or purple. The fruit capsule is round. The seeds are brown.
References (6)
- Flora Zambesiaca. http://apps.kew.org/efloras
- Fowler, D. G., 2007, Zambian Plants: Their Vernacular Names and Uses. Kew. p 79
- Fox, F. W. & Young, M. E. N., 1982, Food from the Veld. Delta Books. p 161
- Long, C., 2005, Swaziland's Flora - siSwati names and Uses http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora/
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 46
- 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
