Dombeya buettneri K.Schum.

Species

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Characteristics

Flowers white, usually with red centre, about 1 in. across, turning yellow in drying.
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A weedy shrub, or small tree, to 15 ft. high, with pithy branches
Leaves with very long channelled petioles
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 4.79
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Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Secondary forest, edges of riparian forest; a forest precursor in various types of secondary communities; Combretum-Terminalia-wooded grassland with tall Hyparrhenia, on rocky hillsides and outcrops; at elevations from 150-2,200 metres.
Light -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses fiber material medicinal wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Distribution

Dombeya buettneri world distribution map, present in Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:822959-1
WFO ID wfo-0000653633
COL ID 378SD
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Dombeya bagshawei Dombeya elskensii Dombeya emarginata Dombeya quarrei Dombeya buettneri Dombeya claessensii Dombeya kandoensis Dombeya mildbraedii Dombeya pedunculata Dombeya seretii Dombeya squarrosa Dombeya robynsii