Afraegle paniculata Engl.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae > Afraegle

Characteristics

A shrub or small tree. It grows 15 m high. The trunk is up to 2 m long until branches and 25-40 cm across. It has spiny branches. The thorns are about 5 cm long. The leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaflets are broadly sword shaped. The flowers are white. The fruit are 7-8 cm across. They have a hard shell.
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A shrub or tree, to 50 ft. high, with grey-green branchlets
Hard-shelled orange-like fruits 2–4 in. diam.
Usually found planted in villages.
White fragrant flowers
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 13.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Lowland secondary thickets and fringes of the dense forest. Savannah, (rarely) dry forest and edges; gallery forest; secondary thickets on coastal plains at elevations up to 500 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows in lowland thickets near the edge of forests. In grows in savannah woodlands.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

Usage

The seeds contain a fat that is used as food. The leaves are made into soups.
Uses environmental use food gene source material medicinal poison social use wood
Edible fruits leaves seeds
Therapeutic use Parturition (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Stomach (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

Afraegle paniculata unspecified picture

Distribution

Afraegle paniculata world distribution map, present in Benin, Burkina Faso, Brazil, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:770830-1
WFO ID wfo-0000522601
COL ID 65DW6
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Afraegle paniculata Balsamocitrus paniculata Aegle barteri Limonia warneckei Citrus paniculata