Landolphia calabarica (Stapf) E.A.Bruce

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Landolphia

Characteristics

A creeper or climbing shrub. It grows 7 m long. It has a white sticky sap. It attaches to other plants by tendrils. The fruit is 10 cm wide and 12.5 cm long.
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Flowers white in dense or lax terminal cymes.
Climber with tendrils, up to 22 ft. high
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 6.85
Root system -
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Root diameter (meter) -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in forest areas in West Africa.
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Forests.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The ripe fruit is eaten.
Uses food material
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown by seeds.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
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Germination luminosity -
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Distribution

Landolphia calabarica world distribution map, present in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:79584-1
WFO ID wfo-0000222729
COL ID 3S6MC
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Landolphia calabarica Carpodinus calabarica Landolphia bracteata