Pergularia tomentosa L.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Pergularia

Characteristics

A climbing shrub. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1 m tall or higher. It has greenish hairs.
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Purplish-white sweet-scented flowers.
A low shrubby climber
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a tropical and subtropical plant. It can grow in arid places.
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Of very dry country
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-12

Usage

The stems are eaten as a famine food.
Uses food gene source material medicinal
Edible stems
Therapeutic use Piles (unspecified)
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 -

Images

Habit

Pergularia tomentosa habit picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Pergularia tomentosa leaf picture by M. Hedayat (cc-by-sa)
Pergularia tomentosa leaf picture by Maarten Vanhove (cc-by-sa)
Pergularia tomentosa leaf picture by Hamdi Bencheikh (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Pergularia tomentosa flower picture by M. Hedayat (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Pergularia tomentosa world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Bahrain, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Israel, Kuwait, Libya, Sri Lanka, Morocco, Mali, Mauritania, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Chad, Tunisia, and Yemen

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:100411-1
WFO ID wfo-0000392092
COL ID 76T33
BDTFX ID 121011
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Pergularia odora Telosma tomentosa Daemia cordata Doemia incana Doemia schmittiana Asclepias cordata Doemia tomentosa Doemia caudata Pergularia tomentosa