Uvaria chamae P.Beauv.

Species

Angiosperms > Magnoliales > Annonaceae > Uvaria

Characteristics

A shrub or small tree. It grows 4.5 m high. It is often straggling and can be a creeper. The fruit are in finger like clusters. The fruit are yellow when ripe and have a sweet pulp.
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Scandent shrub or small tree to 10 ft.high
Petals dirty ochraceous
Fruits rusty-brown.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 3.75
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in the savannah and secondary forest in West Africa. It grows in arid places.
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Fringing forest in savannah. Savannah and secondary forest.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

The juicy layer around the seeds is eaten. The leaves are used in soup.
Uses food fuel gene source material medicinal wood
Edible barks fruits leaves roots
Therapeutic use Astringent (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Fever (unspecified), Hematemesis (unspecified), Hematuria (unspecified), Ophthalmia (unspecified), Piles (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Styptic (unspecified), Wound (unspecified), Catarrh (unspecified), Counterirritant (unspecified), Hematoptysis (unspecified), Parturition (unspecified), Purgative (unspecified), Fontanelleles (unspecified), Inflammation (unspecified), Jaundice (unspecified), Swelling (unspecified), Yellow Fever (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

Leaf

Uvaria chamae leaf picture by Sylvain Piry (cc-by-sa)
Uvaria chamae leaf picture by Sylvain Piry (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Uvaria chamae fruit picture by Herwig Mees (cc-by-sa)
Uvaria chamae fruit picture by Sylvain Piry (cc-by-sa)
Uvaria chamae fruit picture by Oleg Mediannikov (cc-by-sa)

Conservation status

Uvaria chamae threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:75615-1
WFO ID wfo-0000415872
COL ID 7F6R6
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Uva chamae Uva cylindrica Uva cristata Uvaria cristata Uvaria chamae Uvaria cylindrica Unona macrocarpa Uvaria nigrescens Uvaria macrocarpa Xylopiastrum macrocarpum