Physostigma venenosum Balf.

Calabar bean (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Physostigma

Characteristics

A perennial hermaphrodite shrub. It grows 10m high.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 10.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Closed rain-forests, primary and secondary, dry and wet; riparian seasonally flooded forest; marshes.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses material medicinal poison religious social use vertebrate poison
Edible -
Therapeutic use Antidote(Atropine) (unspecified), Arthritis (unspecified), Bursitis (unspecified), Fibrositis (unspecified), Myotic (unspecified), Parasiticide (unspecified), Pediculicide (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Rheumatism (unspecified), Spasm (unspecified), Antidote(Strychnine) (unspecified), Myasthenia Gravis (unspecified), Antidote (unspecified), Colic(Veterinary) (unspecified), Ordeal (unspecified), Raticide (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified), Tetanus (unspecified), Analgesics (unspecified), Antirheumatic agents (unspecified), Cholinesterase inhibitors (unspecified), Constipation (unspecified), Edema (unspecified), Eye diseases (unspecified), Nervous system diseases (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Physostigma venenosum unspecified picture

Distribution

Physostigma venenosum world distribution map, present in Angola, China, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:514320-1
WFO ID wfo-0001058100
COL ID 4HJKN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Physostigma venenosum