Landolphia owariensis P.Beauv.

Liana up to 100 m long, less often a shrub up to 3 m high; trunk up to 40 cm in diameter; bark grey-brown, rough, smooth or fissured, with or without protuding lenticels; branchlets brown pubescent, sometimes glabrous.. Leaves petiolate, blade ovate or obovate to narrowly oblong, 2.1–16(–28) cm long, 1.1–6 cm wide, acuminate to obtuse at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, glabrous to puberulous on both sides, always pubescent to puberulous on midrib and secondary veins; petiole 1–12 mm long, pubescent, sometimes glabrous.. Inflorescence terminal or on tendrils, in many-flowered lax to congested cymes; peduncle 0–15 cm long, pubescent, sometimes glabrous; pedicels 0.5–2.8 mm long.. Flowers fragrant; sepals appearing red due to pubescence outside, ovate to oblong, 1.2–4 mm long, 1.5–3.2 mm wide, ciliate; corolla white or creamy, rarely yellow, turning pink to red after anthesis; tube urceolate to almost cylindrical, 6–9.9 mm long, variably puberulous outside; lobes oblong, 1.7–9.9 mm long, 1–3.2 mm wide, auriculate at the right side; stamens included for 0.3–2 mm, inserted 3–6.3 mm above the corolla base; ovary with a pubescent to lanate belt 0.4–1.1 mm at the retuse apex.. Fruit yellow-orange or purple-blue, globose to broadly ovoid, 2.2–15 cm long, 1.8–15 cm in diameter, smooth or rough, sclerified, often lenticellate, pulp white or yellow sometimes orange tinged, many-seeded; fruit pericarp 0.2–15 mm thick; seeds brown to red brown, up to 18 mm long.. Fig. 6 (p. 23).

A tropical plant. It grows in tropical Africa. It grows in deciduous and evergreen forests. In Nigeria it has been recorded at 1,440 m above sea level. It quickly regenerates and fruits after fires. In Congo it grows from sea level to 1,700 m above sea level.

The fruit are used to make a drink. They are very acid. They are also eaten raw. They are used for jams and jellies. The fruit are also eaten including the seeds.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.