Asclepias densiflora N.E.Br.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Asclepias

Characteristics

A herb or shrub. It grows 24 cm high. It has a fleshy tuber under the ground and annual stems grow from this. It branches at the base and the branches lean outwards. These bend upwards and have flowers at the ends. The stems have milky sap. The leaf blade is triangle shaped. and 5 cm long by 2 cm wide. There are about 15 flowers in a cluster. They are white.
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Perennial herb, 300-500 mm tall. Leaves 9-10 times as long as broad, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, mostly broadest at base, scabrous or harshly pubescent. Umbels solitary, terminal, 25-30 mm in diameter, 12-25-flowered, peduncles 90-175 mm long. Corolla lobes reflexed, glabrous. Flowers white, tinted with dull purple outside; corona yellowish.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.27 - 0.37
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

A tropical plant.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The young leaves are cooked and eaten.
Uses medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 23
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Asclepias densiflora world distribution map, present in eSwatini, South Africa, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:94232-1
WFO ID wfo-0000551268
COL ID H6CC
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Asclepias densiflora