WorldFloraDB - Combretum glutinosum

Characteristics

A shrub or small tree. It can be a woody climber. It grows 12 m tall. The leaves are bug and thick and whitish underneath. The young leaves are covered with a sticky secretion. The leaf shape varies. The flowering shoots are in the axils of leaves and are in yellow-green clusters 6-10 cm long. The fruit have 4 wings. They are about 3 cm long. They are green when young and light red when mature.

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Recognized in the field by the thick leaves which are green and glutinous above, but white, strongly reticulate and hairy beneath

Petals and filaments cream or yellow

Savannah tree, to 35 ft. high

Fruit pale brown.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	tree
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter)	11.33
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Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in the Sahel. It grows in savannah woodland. It grows in the Sahara on dunes and poor soils. It grows in areas with an annual rainfall between 200-900 mm. It can grow in arid places. In Nigeria it has been recorded at 900 m above sea level.

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Savannah and open woodland with an annual rainfall of 200-900 mm. It often grows gregariously on sandy and degraded soils..

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Usage

The dried leaves are used for tea.

Uses	animal food charcoal dye environmental use fiber food fuel gene source material medicinal social use tea wood
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	Wound (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

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