Urera thonneri

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UrticaceaeLeaves

Urera thonneri

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Urera thonneri

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Ehoarn Bidault

Urera thonneri

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Ehoarn Bidault

What to Eat

Edible parts: Leaves

The leaves are cooked as a leafy vegetable.

Where to Find It

It is a tropical plant. It can grow in dry forest and seasonally flooded forest.

Africa, Central Africa, Central African Republic, CAR, Congo DR,

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 found in tropical Africa, growing in both dry forest and seasonally flooded forest environments.

Names & Synonyms

Likile

References (1)

Termote, C., et al, 2011, Eating from the wild: Turumbu, Mbole and Bali traditional knowledge of non-cultivated edible plants, District Tshopo, DRCongo, Gen Resourc Crop Evol. 58:585-618

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