WorldFloraDB - Guiera senegalensis

Characteristics

A shrub. It grows 3 m tall. The bark is grey. The branches are softly hairy. The leaves are grey-green and oval. They are 3-6 cm long by 2-4 cm wide. They are hairy. The flowers are in round heads. They are yellowish-green. The fruit is 3.5 cm long and covered with silvery hairs.

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Yellowish flowers.

Grey foliage

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
Growth support	-
Foliage retention	evergreen
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
Pollination	-
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Mature width (meter)	-
Mature height (meter)	2.5
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Nitrogen fixer	-
Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in the Sahel. It is mostly on sandy soils. It grows in savannah woodland. It grows in areas with an annual rainfall between 200-800 mm. It can grow in arid places.

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(Degraded) savannah, savannah forests, forest on fallow land (abandoned farms); light dry soils, sandy or rocky; at elevations from 945-1,020 metres.

Abundant in sandy wastes and semi-desert areas of the north.

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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The leaves are also used to curdle milk.

Uses	animal food bee plant environmental use food food additive fuel gene source gum invertebrate food material medicinal non-vertebrate poison poison social use wood
Edible	leaves seeds
Therapeutic use	Antipyretics (fruit), Astringents (fruit), Diarrhea (fruit), Dysentery (fruit), Hematologic diseases (fruit), Lactation disorders (fruit), General tonic for rejuvenation (fruit), Antipyretics (leaf), Astringents (leaf), Bronchitis (leaf), Diarrhea (leaf), Dysentery (leaf), Hematologic diseases (leaf), Lactation disorders (leaf), General tonic for rejuvenation (leaf), Tumor (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Skin diseases (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

It is grown from seeds.

Mode	seedlings
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