Riocreuxia torulosa
Decne.
ApocynaceaeLeaves
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Leaves
The leaves are cooked as a potherb.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant.
Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland, Zululand,
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 climber. It is a tall, slender, straggling plant. The leaf stalks are 1.5 cm long. The leaf blades are narrowly triangle shaped and heart shaped at the base. They taper to a long narrow point. They are 6 cm long by 2 cm wide. The flower clusters are at the side. There are many flowers. The flower stalks are very slender and 1 cm long. The flower tubes are about 1.5 cm long. They are pale yellow with darker tips. The fruit is very slender. It is 5 cm long by 2 mm wide.
Names & Synonyms
Kandelaarblom, Khethoku, Mololo, Mufungwi, Seremisa hlogo, Uqwapa
Ceropegia effusa HuberRiocreuxia profusa N. E. Br.?
Trichocaulon columnare Nel
References (10)
- Famine foods
- Fox, F. W. & Young, M. E. N., 1982, Food from the Veld. Delta Books. p 114
- Guillarmod, J., 1966, 1971,
- HELY-HUTCHINSON
- Magwede, K., van Wyk, B.-E., & van Wyk, A. E., 2019, An inventory of Vhavenḓa useful plants. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 57–89
- Peters, C. R., O'Brien, E. M., and Drummond, R.B., 1992, Edible Wild plants of Sub-saharan Africa. Kew. p 66
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 27
- Swaziland's Flora Database http://www.sntc.org.sz/flora
- Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179
- World Checklist of Useful Plant Species 2020. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
