Microcos africana
(Hook.f.) Burret
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Meise Botanic Garden
Meise Botanic Garden
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit ?, Vegetable
The fruit and vegetable portions are edible.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant.
Africa, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, 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 shrub. It grows 6 m tall. It can be climbing. The flowers are white inside and brown outside. The fruit are red or reddish-brown.
Notes
These were in the families Sparrmanniaceae and the Tiliaceae.
Names & Synonyms
Grewia africana (Hook.f.) Mast.Grewia hookeriana Exell & Mendonca
References (2)
- Grubben, G. J. H. and Denton, O. A. (eds), 2004, Plant Resources of Tropical Africa 2. Vegetables. PROTA, Wageningen, Netherlands. p 562 (As Grewia hookeriana)
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
