Adenia mannii

(Mast.) Engl.

PassifloraceaeFruit

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit - aril

The aril of the fruit is edible.

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant. It grows in forest near marshes and in the coastal zone in West Africa. It grows up to 1,050 and 1,150 m above sea level.

Africa, Benin, Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo DR, East Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, 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 slender climber. It can be 5 m tall. The leaves are pale green. They are 4-17 cm long by 2-7 cm wide. The flowering stalk is up to 12 cm long. There are 30 male flowers and 10 female flowers. There are 1-3 tendrils that can be up to 15 cm long. The flowers are tube shaped. There are 1-6 fruit in a group. They are narrow and angular. There are 20-30 seeds.