Salacia bussei

Loes.

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Salacia bussei

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Salacia bussei

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(c) David Goyder, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The ripe fruit is eaten after the hard skin is removed.

Where to Find It

A tropical plant.

Africa, East Africa, Tanzania,

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 tropical shrub or creeper in the Celastraceae family found in tropical and subtropical regions, where it grows among a genus of 150-200 species.

Notes

There are 150-200 Salacia species. They grow in the tropics and subtropics.

Names & Synonyms

Mhumbuka

References (1)

CROSS-UPCOTT,

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