Vigna schimperi
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves, Vegetable, Roots
The leaves are eaten as a green vegetable. The root tubers are eaten as a vegetable, either cooked or raw.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in dry areas. It grows between 1,350-2,800 m above sea level. It can grow in arid places.
Africa, Central Africa, Congo, East Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda,
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. It is a climber that keeps growing from year to year. It grows 2 m high.
Names & Synonyms
Ki-thugio
References (4)
- Bussman, R. W., 2006, Ethnobotany of the Samburu of Mt Nyiru, South Turkana, Kenya. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 2:35
- 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
- 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 1st May 2011]
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
