Hugonia spicata
Oliv.
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
What to Eat
Edible parts: Bark, Stem - drink
The bark and stems are used to make a drink.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in the rain-forest in West Africa,
Africa, Central Africa, Central African Republic, CAR, Congo DR, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, West Africa,
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 woody creeper with hairy young branches, native to tropical rainforests of West Africa.
Notes
Also put in the family Hugoniaceae.
References (4)
- Burkill, H. M., 1985, The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 3. Kew.
- The Digital Flora of Central Africa, 2013, (Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda & Burundi) Botanical Garden Meise (As var. glabrescens)
- Wilczek, R.,1 958, Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi: Linaceae. vol. 7, p. 50
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
