young shoot icon Home All plants About

Corallocarpus poissonii Cogn.

Species

Angiosperms > Cucurbitales > Cucurbitaceae > Corallocarpus

Characteristics

Leaf-lamina 2·7–8 × 1·5–9·5 cm., broadly ovate in outline, cordate, plane or more or less sinuate, denticulate, rather densely, finely and shortly asperulous beneath, less densely so and becoming scabrid-punctate above, deeply palmately 3–5-lobed, lobes obovate, obovate-elliptic, broadly elliptic or broadly ovate, rounded, apiculate, unlobed or shortly 3-lobulate, the central largest.
More
male flowers c. 7–9 in shortly racemiform or subcapitate pedunculate clusters; peduncle 1·3–4 cm. long; pedicels 1–3 mm. long. Receptacle-tube 1 mm. long; lobes 0·5–1 mm. long, lanceolate, acute. Petals, 0·7–1·5 mm. long.
Stems scandent, minutely and sparsely puberulous, glabrescent, when older softly woody with brownish slightly ridged bark.
Fruits 15–18 × 8 mm., subsessile, ovoid, shortly and broadly rostrate, glabrous, red.
Petiole 2·1–3·1 cm. long, shortly and finely antrorsely puberulous.
Female flowers 1–6, subsessile; ovary ovoid, rostrate.
Seeds not known.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber
Foliage retention -
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) -
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses food
Edible fruits leaves roots stems
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:292086-1
WFO ID wfo-0000619929
COL ID 5ZZNV
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Corallocarpus bussei Corallocarpus poissonii
WorldFloraDB 2024